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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the woman afraid to have children?
(a) She thinks bad things would happen.
(b) She fears childbirth.
(c) She does not trust herself to raise a child.
(d) She is afraid of children.

2. How does the crowd know that all "Yids" in Kiev were to report to a street corner by the Jewish cemetery with all their belongings or they would be shot?
(a) A sign posted on the fence the day before.
(b) A notice in the paper the week before.
(c) An announcement on an intercom system throughout the city earlier that day.
(d) A letter from the German commander.

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

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

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

6. 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 runs into her old neighbors.
(c) When she swims in the pool.
(d) When she sees her family's home.

7. What is a clue to what is really harming the woman?
(a) Her early relationships.
(b) Her time spent in Bad Gastein.
(c) How she relates to Freud.
(d) Her breast and ovary pain.

8. What does Freud say the focus on orality ("sucking, biting, eating, gorging, taking in") reflects?
(a) Being drawn in by something.
(b) Animal instincts.
(c) A baby's first years.
(d) Being attacked.

9. How does the news of the serial killer D'sseldorf affect Lisa?
(a) She is afraid to leave her home.
(b) She is excited about the life of a serial killer.
(c) She fears falling asleep at night.
(d) She is tortured by thoughts of him and murdered children.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the men force Lisa to perform oral sex on them?

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

3. Lisa admits her sexual hang ups are connected to what?

4. Why does Lisa feel odd in Kiev?

5. What is the only way to tell the woman's mother and aunt apart?

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