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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the woman appear when she returns from Gastein?
(a) Even more ill.
(b) Schizophrenic.
(c) Sad.
(d) To be changed.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Kolya feel about his mother?
(a) He loves her as he would a birth mother.
(b) He is unsure how he feels about her.
(c) He is indifferent to her.
(d) He regrets having an old woman for a mother.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why does the woman want to destroy the writings?
(a) She does not want Freud to study her any longer.
(b) She believes she is cured and is embarrassed by the writings.
(c) She believes they are an inaccurate portrayal of her mental state at the time.
(d) She believes them to be the work of the devil.

15. What is the camp?
(a) A group of hikers.
(b) A circus.
(c) A lush oasis with a beautiful hotel.
(d) A military camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman touch whenever she is lying?

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

3. What does Freud decide is the root of the woman's hysteria?

4. How does Kolya show his true colors?

5. Why does Freud find the woman impenetrable?

(see the answer keys)

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