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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 Lisa nervous about her performance?

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

3. Lisa spots a woman they know. Who is this woman?

4. Why is the woman afraid to have children?

5. How does everyone around Lisa feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

2. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Anna admit about her husband?

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

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

10. How is Anna when she returns from Gastein?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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