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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 information does the letter contain that Lisa receives?

2. What does the woman touch whenever she is lying?

3. Of what is the crowd unsure?

4. What is the camp?

5. Why does Freud find the woman impenetrable?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Vera Serebryokova?

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

4. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Kolya respond to Lisa?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The woman is obsessed.

Part 1) With what?

Part 2) Why does she have this obsession?

Part 3) Provide evidence for both her obsession and the reasons for this obsession.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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