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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?
(a) After her last session with Freud.
(b) After seeing the Shroud.
(c) After mass.
(d) After her performance at La Scala.

2. 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.

3. According to Freud, why does the woman marry?
(a) She wants a husband and children.
(b) She is lonely.
(c) She needs someone to provide for her.
(d) In a desperate attempt to prove herself normal.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

15. The woman has a dream that makes her feel like she does not exist to Freud. What does this mean to Freud?
(a) She could kill herself.
(b) She does not mean anything to any man.
(c) Her body is fragile.
(d) Her soul does not exist.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?

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

5. In the dream, where does the woman tell the man on the train that she's going?

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