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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Freud threaten to quit the woman's therapy?
(a) She does not tell the complete truth.
(b) He is tricking her into continuing her therapy.
(c) She is rude to Freud.
(d) She is completely healthy.

2. Feeling better, what does Anna do when she leaves Freud's care?
(a) She moves to Kiev.
(b) She gets remarried.
(c) She pursues her musical career again.
(d) She goes back to the health resort, Bad Gastein.

3. Why does the woman want to destroy the writings?
(a) She believes they are an inaccurate portrayal of her mental state at the time.
(b) She believes them to be the work of the devil.
(c) She believes she is cured and is embarrassed by the writings.
(d) She does not want Freud to study her any longer.

4. What information does the letter contain that Lisa receives?
(a) Vera has given birth to her child.
(b) Vera has died in childbirth.
(c) Freud has died.
(d) Victor has been murdered.

5. The woman has a dream that makes her feel like she does not exist to Freud. What does this mean to Freud?
(a) She could kill herself.
(b) She does not mean anything to any man.
(c) Her body is fragile.
(d) Her soul does not exist.

6. What scars the woman's perfect memory of her mother?
(a) Her mother arguing with her aunt.
(b) Her mother cavorting with her uncle.
(c) Her mother leaving her to go shopping.
(d) Her mother divorcing her father.

7. What do they realize when they make it through the barrier?
(a) There is no train.
(b) The train is dirty and smells of human feces.
(c) The train is already full.
(d) The train is running late.

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

9. Lisa admits her sexual hang ups are connected to what?
(a) The abuse she receives as a young girl.
(b) Her early sexual relationships.
(c) Her marriage.
(d) A fear of enjoying herself when she knew others were suffering.

10. What does Freud ask her to do, which results in "Don Giovanni?"
(a) Write an opera.
(b) Write down what she is feeling.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Write down her experiences at the white hotel.

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

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

13. In the dream, where does the woman tell the man on the train that she's going?
(a) To Kiev.
(b) To Paris.
(c) To Vienna.
(d) To Moscow.

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

15. Why does Freud write that the woman must have homosexual tendencies?
(a) She has erotic fantasies about women.
(b) Her hallucinations appear when she has sexual contact with men, and her only good relationships have been with women.
(c) She dislikes most men and enjoys the company of most women.
(d) She is not attracted to men, only to women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who escapes as the only witness of what happened at Babi Yar?

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

3. Why does Lisa feel odd in Kiev?

4. To what does Freud relate the woman's history?

5. Lisa spots a woman they know. Who is this woman?

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