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

2. 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 leans against a pine tree and smells it,
(c) When she sees her family's home.
(d) When she swims in the pool.

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

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

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

6. Of what is the crowd unsure?
(a) Who is in charge of them.
(b) Where they are going.
(c) What to take with them.
(d) What they are protesting.

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Freud write that the woman must have homosexual tendencies?
(a) She has erotic fantasies about women.
(b) She dislikes most men and enjoys the company of most women.
(c) She is not attracted to men, only to women.
(d) Her hallucinations appear when she has sexual contact with men, and her only good relationships have been with women.

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

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

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

15. Why do Lisa and Victor take a trip on a passenger ship?
(a) For a honeymoon.
(b) For a family vacation.
(c) To allow Kolya time to adjust to his new mother.
(d) To escape the Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman afraid to have children?

2. To what does Freud relate the woman's history?

3. Why does Lyons suggest Lisa should work as a nurse?

4. How does Freud interpret the white hotel?

5. What does Freud ask her to do, which results in "Don Giovanni?"

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