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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 Freud ask her to do, which results in "Don Giovanni?"

2. What do they realize when they make it through the barrier?

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

4. The woman has a dream that makes her feel like she does not exist to Freud. What does this mean to Freud?

5. How does the crowd know that all "Yids" in Kiev were to report to a street corner by the Jewish cemetery with all their belongings or they would be shot?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Anna admit about her husband?

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

4. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

5. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

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

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

8. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

9. How do those waiting in line feel? Why are they waiting?

10. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa finds harmony and reconciliation at the camp.

Part 1) What kind of religious harmony?

Part 2) With whom does she reconcile?

Part 3) With what aspect of herself does she reconcile?

Essay Topic 3

Freud is inspired to research the Death Drive.

Part 1) What is the Death Drive?

Part 2) What does this research foreshadow?

Part 3) What is the relationship between the woman and the Death Drive?

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