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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lisa share in a Christmas letter to Aunt Magda?
(a) Her life as an opera singer.
(b) Her experiences at La Scala.
(c) Stories of her family.
(d) Information about her sessions with Freud.

2. How does the news of the serial killer D'sseldorf affect Lisa?
(a) She is excited about the life of a serial killer.
(b) She is tortured by thoughts of him and murdered children.
(c) She is afraid to leave her home.
(d) She fears falling asleep at night.

3. Why is the woman afraid to have children?
(a) She thinks bad things would happen.
(b) She fears childbirth.
(c) She is afraid of children.
(d) She does not trust herself to raise a child.

4. It's 1929, and an opera singer named Frau Elisabeth (Lisa) Erdman is traveling from Vienna to what city to perform in a show?
(a) Moscow.
(b) London.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Milan.

5. Why is the woman in a wonderful mood?
(a) She has met a sweet man.
(b) Madame R. is coming to visit.
(c) She has received a letter from Madame R.
(d) She is pregnant.

6. Why does Lyons suggest Lisa should work as a nurse?
(a) She is knowledgeable in the human anatomy.
(b) She had begun studying to be a nurse.
(c) She is always helping others.
(d) She is frustrated that people have to be listless and skeletal.

7. Upon whom are the man and woman based?
(a) Anna's mother and uncle.
(b) Some honeymooners at Gastein.
(c) Anna and the men in her life.
(d) Freud and his wife.

8. Freud asks those who read the woman's writings to realize what about the women in the hotel?
(a) They are the woman's friends.
(b) They are Anna's mother and Aunt.
(c) They are different sides of the woman.
(d) They are the women in Anna's life.

9. Why do Lisa and Victor take a trip on a passenger ship?
(a) To escape the Germans.
(b) For a honeymoon.
(c) For a family vacation.
(d) To allow Kolya time to adjust to his new mother.

10. What does Lisa experience for the first time?
(a) The love of a child.
(b) A man that loves her.
(c) No hallucinations or unpleasant thoughts during sex.
(d) A family.

11. Instead of being shot at Babi Yar, what happens to Lisa and Kolya?
(a) They get off a train on a platform in the middle of nowhere.
(b) They are in the white hotel.
(c) They are at home in Kiev.
(d) They are in heaven with the angels.

12. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?
(a) L'Orlando.
(b) La Scala.
(c) La Garafano.
(d) La Cecchetti.

13. How does Lisa lie to Kolya?
(a) Victor has betrayed them.
(b) Victor will never return.
(c) Victor will find them for sure.
(d) Victor does not love him.

14. Why does the German officer tell the police officer to kill everyone on the hillside?
(a) He wants everyone to die.
(b) He will receive a bonus in his pay for the more he kills.
(c) If they are let out they will tell people what happened and no Jews will show up the next day.
(d) He does not want any supporters of the Jews to survive.

15. Who is soon the camp's mascot and the center of the many celebrations?
(a) The horse, Cheval.
(b) The cat, Vaska.
(c) The bird, Twitter.
(d) The dog, Gato.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the crowd know that all "Yids" in Kiev were to report to a street corner by the Jewish cemetery with all their belongings or they would be shot?

2. What does the woman touch whenever she is lying?

3. Lisa admits her sexual hang ups are connected to what?

4. Why does Lisa feel odd in Kiev?

5. How does Kolya show his true colors?

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