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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the men force Lisa to perform oral sex on them?
(a) She is of Jewish descent.
(b) They enjoy torturing women.
(c) She is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(d) They do not like Catholics.

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

3. How does everyone around Lisa feel?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Excited.
(c) Angry.
(d) Unsure.

4. 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 does not want Freud to study her any longer.
(c) She believes she is cured and is embarrassed by the writings.
(d) She believes them to be the work of the devil.

5. Why is it difficult for Lisa to allow Vera to see her son?
(a) Kolya has never met her.
(b) Vera may not be a good mother.
(c) Lisa is jealous of Vera.
(d) She feels like Kolya's real mother.

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

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

8. Why is Victor somewhat sad about the birth of his child?
(a) He worries about the health of his child.
(b) His first wife and their son died during a war.
(c) He knows fatherhood is a difficult job.
(d) He is not sure if he wants children.

9. Why does Lisa ignore her desires?
(a) She wants to be more responsible.
(b) Her singing is much improved.
(c) She can better concentrate.
(d) It is more peaceful.

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

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

12. 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 will receive a bonus in his pay for the more he kills.
(d) He wants everyone to die.

13. How does Kolya show his true colors?
(a) He is a happy boy.
(b) His favorite colors are green and blue.
(c) He is a terror.
(d) He is very shy.

14. Why does Freud ask the woman to go home and write an interpretation of her hallucination?
(a) He is too tired and ill to interpret her hallucination.
(b) He is too embarrassed to read her writings.
(c) He is confused and upset by her writings.
(d) He is intrigued and wants to know how she interprets her hallucination.

15. What will lead to the woman's healing?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Shock therapy.
(c) Reliving the memories.
(d) Hypnotherapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they hear when they stop to eat?

2. Madame Cottin represents Madame R. What is the connection between Madame Cottin and Madame R?

3. How does the news of the serial killer D'sseldorf affect Lisa?

4. What does Lisa share in a Christmas letter to Aunt Magda?

5. Why does Freud write that the woman must have homosexual tendencies?

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