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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman believe are falling into the lake?

2. What do the fictional letters between Sigmund Freud, his colleagues, and their friends contain?

3. Why does Bolotnikov-Leskov, a politician, say the whales could have been "called" by Madame Cottin?

4. Two days later, how is the hotel still feeling the affects of the storm?

5. How does a pastor comfort himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the woman dreams she is a figurehead?

2. What is the purpose of these postcards?

3. What is particularly shocking about the language? Why is it so shocking?

4. What takes place between the woman and man on the train?

5. Over what do the woman and man argue?

6. From the mountain the man points out what he believes to be parachutists, but what does the couple discover?

7. Describe the corsetiere, the priest, and the chef.

8. What traumatic events does Freud believe relate to the flood and fire hallucination?

9. Who does the woman address in the final section? What does she say?

10. What happens after the woman begins to produce milk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisa is preoccupied and obsessed with pregnancy.

Part 1) What images does the author use to portray this?

Part 2) Why is she preoccupied with pregnancy?

Part 3) How do her obsession with and premonitions about pregnancy come to fruition in her real life?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa has the ability to predict the future.

Part 1) Give two examples from the book of accurate predictions.

Part 2) What is the connection between her obsessions with sex, death, and pregnancy and real life events?

Part 3) Does Freud believe she can predict the future? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

This book opens with a series of letters.

Part 1) Describe these letters' authors and receivers.

Part 2) Describe the contents of the letters.

Part 3) What is the purpose of these letters?

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