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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. Feeling better, what does Anna do when she leaves Freud's care?

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

3. What does Freud decide is the root of the woman's hysteria?

4. Freud asks those who read the woman's writings to realize what about the women in the hotel?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

7. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

8. What has happened to Kolya's father?

9. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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