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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Sleeping Carriage, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud decide is the root of the woman's hysteria?
(a) Her sexual history.
(b) Her mother's affair.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

2. What are these girl's writings inspiring Freud to do?
(a) Write a book for his daughter.
(b) End his career in psychoanalysis.
(c) Take prescription medication.
(d) Examine the death instinct as well as sexual behavior.

3. Freud immediately relates what two disasters in the woman's life to her hallucinations?
(a) Her entrapment in a burning building, and a terrible storm that flooded her home.
(b) An automobile fire that traps her sister, and a terrible storm when she is at sea.
(c) Her mother dying in a fire, and the maid telling her about her mother's death on the night of a terrible storm.
(d) A fire that kills her black cat, and a terrible storm that leaves her stranded in her home.

4. What does the woman touch whenever she is lying?
(a) Her glasses.
(b) Her pearl earrings.
(c) Her crucifix necklace.
(d) Her nose.

5. To what does Freud relate the woman's history?
(a) The Flood.
(b) The Oedipus complex.
(c) The fall of Adam and Eve.
(d) The life of Emily Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the couple return to their room?

2. How does the black cat survive the flood?

3. Why is Victor somewhat sad about the birth of his child?

4. What does Lisa experience for the first time?

5. According to Freud, why does the woman marry?

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