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

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

3. Why is it difficult for Lisa to allow Vera to see her son?

4. Of what is the crowd unsure?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Vera Serebryokova?

3. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

4. How does Anna feel about her writings?

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

6. What has happened to Kolya's father?

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

8. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

9. How do those waiting in line feel? Why are they waiting?

10. How does Kolya respond to Lisa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Madame Cottin represents a woman in Lisa's life.

Part 1) Who does Madame Cottin symbolize?

Part 2) What are the similarities between Madame Cottin and the woman in Lisa's life?

Part 3) Madame Cottin, the man, and the woman are intimate. What is the significance of this?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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