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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Freud encourage the woman to follow up on her theory that her mother and uncle both die in the fire?
(a) It will help her overcome her illness.
(b) He believes she is wrong.
(c) He believes she is right.
(d) To help her accept their deaths.

2. 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) Milan.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Kiev.

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

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

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

6. With what is Lisa diagnosed?
(a) Anagnorisis.
(b) Germanophobia
(c) Gnosticism.
(d) Agoraphobia.

7. When does Lisa realize that it is the same place and she is the same person, though both have aged 40 years?
(a) When she runs into her old neighbors.
(b) When she swims in the pool.
(c) When she sees her family's home.
(d) When she leans against a pine tree and smells it,

8. The writings, Freud says, allow the woman to do what?
(a) Rest and recuperate.
(b) Show her abilities as a writer of fiction and a poet.
(c) Come to terms with her mother's faults and her own.
(d) Evaluate her sexuality.

9. How is the woman a few weeks after resuming treatment?
(a) Completely back to normal.
(b) Her symptoms return.
(c) Her symptoms completely disappear.
(d) Her symptoms are mostly gone.

10. What does Freud want to do with Lisa's case study?
(a) Send it to her as a gift.
(b) Publish it along with her hallucinatory writings.
(c) Give it to Oxford University.
(d) Send it to his friends.

11. What is the latest rumor circulating through the crowd?
(a) They will be slaves of the Germans.
(b) They will all be shot.
(c) They are going to a concentration camp.
(d) Everyone is going to Palestine.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud interpret the white hotel?

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

3. How does Lisa lie to Kolya?

4. What scars the woman's perfect memory of her mother?

5. Why do Lisa and Victor take a trip on a passenger ship?

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