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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 sees her family's home.
(d) When she runs into her old neighbors.

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

5. How does Freud interpret the white hotel?
(a) As a casket.
(b) As heaven.
(c) As an insane asylum.
(d) As the mother's womb.

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

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

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

9. With what is Lisa diagnosed?
(a) Germanophobia
(b) Gnosticism.
(c) Agoraphobia.
(d) Anagnorisis.

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

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

12. 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) Her hallucinations appear when she has sexual contact with men, and her only good relationships have been with women.
(d) She is not attracted to men, only to women.

13. Why does Freud encourage the woman to follow up on her theory that her mother and uncle both die in the fire?
(a) To help her accept their deaths.
(b) It will help her overcome her illness.
(c) He believes she is wrong.
(d) He believes she is right.

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

15. Why does Lisa feel odd in Kiev?
(a) She has a sense of deja vu.
(b) She does not speak the language.
(c) The city has changed so much since her childhood.
(d) The city is very different from other European cities.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the woman appear when she returns from Gastein?

4. What do they hear when they stop to eat?

5. Feeling better, what does Anna do when she leaves Freud's care?

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