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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?
(a) She trips leaving her flat.
(b) She slips on the icy street.
(c) Her arm becomes caught in an automobile door.
(d) Falling down the steps in La Scala.

3. What do they hear when they stop to eat?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Sounds of machine gun fire.
(c) Music.
(d) Bombs exploding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is the only way to tell the woman's mother and aunt apart?
(a) One wears a cross and one does not.
(b) One is taller than the other.
(c) One has a mole on her cheek and one does not.
(d) They have different hairstyles.

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

13. 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.

14. Why does Freud find the woman impenetrable?
(a) He has still not found the source of her hysteria.
(b) She lies to him.
(c) She believes she is healthy.
(d) She keeps important information from him.

15. 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 leans against a pine tree and smells it,
(b) When she swims in the pool.
(c) When she runs into her old neighbors.
(d) When she sees her family's home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Lisa ignore her desires?

3. The woman has a dream that makes her feel like she does not exist to Freud. What does this mean to Freud?

4. How does Kolya show his true colors?

5. Why is the woman afraid to have children?

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