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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. Who does Freud lose?

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

3. Why does the nun tell them to continue unembarrassed?

4. What does the ice do?

5. What does Lionheart say about the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the chapter begin?

2. Why does Lionheart believe it is best for everyone to discuss the unusual events at the hotel?

3. What do the people on the yacht do?

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

5. How does one know with what the woman is obsessed?

6. Describe two of the first post cards describing an afternoon on a yacht.

7. What does the woman describe? What accompanies her intense images?

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

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

10. Why does Ferenczi fear Gisela does not want to marry him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The camp is a vision of the afterlife.

Part 1) Who is in this afterlife with Lisa?

Part 2) How would you envision the afterlife?

Part 3) Compare and contrast your vision of the afterlife with the vision of the afterlife in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Lisa has suffered from two traumatic events in her childhood that lead to two events in her hallucination.

Part 1) What are these two events?

Part 2) What connection do these events have with her hallucination?

Part 3) How does she resolve this trauma by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Madame Cottin represents a woman in Lisa's life.

Part 1) Who does Madame Cottin symbolize?

Part 2) What are the similarities between Madame Cottin and the woman in Lisa's life?

Part 3) Madame Cottin, the man, and the woman are intimate. What is the significance of this?

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