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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. Instead of being shot at Babi Yar, what happens to Lisa and Kolya?

2. How is the woman a few weeks after resuming treatment?

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

4. What scars the woman's perfect memory of her mother?

5. How does Kolya show his true colors?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Vera Serebryokova?

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

7. How does Kolya respond to Lisa?

8. How does Anna feel about her writings?

9. To what does Freud relate Anna's history?

10. What is the connection between the corsetiere, Madame Cottin and Madame R.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Madame Cottin, the Japanese maid, and others fall to their deaths from a broken cable car.

Part 1) Why does this sexually excite the man?

Part 2) Why does Madame Cottin feel free as she falls?

Part 3) What might be the author's purpose for using a cable car as the vehicle of death?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa's parents are of two different religions.

Part 1) What religions?

Part 2) How does this affect their relationships with their families?

Part 3) How does her father's religion affect Lisa?

Essay Topic 3

Lisa's mother and uncle have an affair.

Part 1) Why does she not realize this, at first?

Part 2) When does she realize they are having an affair?

Part 3) How does learning about this affair help Lisa learn information about her mother's death?

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