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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Health Resort, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?
(a) She trips leaving her flat.
(b) She slips on the icy street.
(c) Her arm becomes caught in an automobile door.
(d) Falling down the steps in La Scala.

2. Though "The Gastein Journal" is written in third-person prose rather than first-person poetry, it tells essentially the same story as what?
(a) "Rigoletto."
(b) "Don Giovanni."
(c) "La Boheme."
(d) "Madame Butterfly."

3. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?
(a) After seeing the Shroud.
(b) After her last session with Freud.
(c) After her performance at La Scala.
(d) After mass.

4. Why is the woman at the beginning of the chapter running through the forest?
(a) Toward a clearing.
(b) From unknown pursuers.
(c) She is chasing an animal.
(d) She is late to the party.

5. What happens as the woman feels bullets hitting her?
(a) She wakes up.
(b) She dies.
(c) She feels pain.
(d) She bleeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the woman when she sits next to a young soldier?

2. The couple looks at photographs of the soldier's family, and while the woman is drawn to Freud, about whom does the soldier seem concerned?

3. What does Freud call the 29-year-old woman in a case study?

4. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?

5. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?

(see the answer key)

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