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

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

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

4. What do they hear when they stop to eat?
(a) Bombs exploding.
(b) Sounds of machine gun fire.
(c) Music.
(d) Screaming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Freud threaten to quit the woman's therapy?

2. What does Freud write is not sufficient to explain the woman's severe hysteria, so he knows she is hiding something deeper?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anna feel about her writings?

2. How is this chapter different from the previous chapter?

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

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

5. What has happened to Kolya's father?

6. What does Anna admit about her husband?

7. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

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

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

10. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

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