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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. Lisa is merely filling in for the master soprano at what theatre?

2. Why does Freud ask the woman to go home and write an interpretation of her hallucination?

3. Why does Freud threaten to quit the woman's therapy?

4. What does Freud say the focus on orality ("sucking, biting, eating, gorging, taking in") reflects?

5. What is the only way to tell the woman's mother and aunt apart?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

2. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

3. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Freud say about "Done Giovanni" and "The Gastein Journal?"

9. How does Anna feel about her writings?

10. What does Anna admit about her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

There are many symbols used in this book.

Part 1) Name two symbols used in this book.

Part 2) Describe the passages in which the symbols are discussed.

Part 3) What is the significance of these symbols?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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