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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. Why is Freud not surprised that the woman has a relationship with someone like A.?

2. Why does Lisa ignore her desires?

3. It's 1929, and an opera singer named Frau Elisabeth (Lisa) Erdman is traveling from Vienna to what city to perform in a show?

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

5. In the dream, where does the woman tell the man on the train that she's going?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to Kolya's father?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Kolya respond to Lisa?

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

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

9. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter One begins with the description of a dream that is later expanded.

Part 1) What is this dream?

Part 2) What is the purpose of the dream in relationship to the rest of the story?

Part 3) What does this dream foreshadow?

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

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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