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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does everyone around Lisa feel?
(a) Excited.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Angry.
(d) Unsure.

4. 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 swims in the pool.
(b) When she sees her family's home.
(c) When she leans against a pine tree and smells it,
(d) When she runs into her old neighbors.

5. What scars the woman's perfect memory of her mother?
(a) Her mother divorcing her father.
(b) Her mother arguing with her aunt.
(c) Her mother cavorting with her uncle.
(d) Her mother leaving her to go shopping.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lisa convince the soldier to believe she is a Jew?

2. What does Freud say the focus on orality ("sucking, biting, eating, gorging, taking in") reflects?

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

4. Why is the woman afraid to have children?

5. Why is Lisa nervous about her performance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the soldiers do to Lisa when they realize she is alive?

2. What are the similarities and differences between Lisa's train ride to the woman's?

3. How does Freud relate Anna's troubles to his theory of the death instinct?

4. What does Freud think about Ann's childhood? Why is questioning Anna difficult?

5. How is Anna when she returns from Gastein?

6. What does the memory of Anna's aunt trigger?

7. Describe an anecdote Freud shares in the case study.

8. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

9. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

10. What are the rumors spreading around the Jews waiting in line?

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