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

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

3. What information does the letter contain that Lisa receives?
(a) Vera has given birth to her child.
(b) Vera has died in childbirth.
(c) Freud has died.
(d) Victor has been murdered.

4. 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) London.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Milan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the latest rumor circulating through the crowd?

2. Why do the men force Lisa to perform oral sex on them?

3. Of what is the crowd unsure?

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

5. How does Kolya show his true colors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say about "Done Giovanni" and "The Gastein Journal?"

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

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

6. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

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

8. What does Anna admit about her husband?

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

10. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

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