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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 does Freud threaten to quit the woman's therapy?

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

3. Why does the woman want to destroy the writings?

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

5. Madame Cottin represents Madame R. What is the connection between Madame Cottin and Madame R?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

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

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

5. How does Kolya respond to Lisa?

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

7. What does Anna admit about her husband?

8. Describe Vera Serebryokova?

9. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

10. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisa suffers physical pain, as well as hallucinations.

Part 1) Where is her pain located?

Part 2) How does Freud explain this pain?

Part 3) What does this pain foreshadow?

Essay Topic 2

Lisa is preoccupied and obsessed with pregnancy.

Part 1) What images does the author use to portray this?

Part 2) Why is she preoccupied with pregnancy?

Part 3) How do her obsession with and premonitions about pregnancy come to fruition in her real life?

Essay Topic 3

Lisa never has children of her own.

Part 1) Who becomes her adopted child? Why?

Part 2) What is the relationship like between Lisa and this child?

Part 3) What does Lisa sacrifice for this child? Why?

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