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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) He believes she is wrong.
(b) He believes she is right.
(c) It will help her overcome her illness.
(d) To help her accept their deaths.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?
(a) The audience will include members of the Italian government.
(b) She has never performed at La Scala.
(c) She has not performed in several years.
(d) She feels too old to sing the part of a young girl.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) Kiev.
(c) Moscow.
(d) London.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman in a wonderful mood?

2. How does everyone around Lisa feel?

3. When does Lisa realize that it is the same place and she is the same person, though both have aged 40 years?

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

5. What does Freud write is not sufficient to explain the woman's severe hysteria, so he knows she is hiding something deeper?

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