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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. How is the woman a few weeks after resuming treatment?

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

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

4. Of what is the crowd unsure?

5. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Anna when she returns from Gastein?

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

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

4. What has happened to Kolya's father?

5. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

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

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

8. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

9. What does Anna admit about her husband?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Freud is inspired to research the Death Drive.

Part 1) What is the Death Drive?

Part 2) What does this research foreshadow?

Part 3) What is the relationship between the woman and the Death Drive?

Essay Topic 2

The camp is a vision of the afterlife.

Part 1) Who is in this afterlife with Lisa?

Part 2) How would you envision the afterlife?

Part 3) Compare and contrast your vision of the afterlife with the vision of the afterlife in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Lisa has the ability to predict the future.

Part 1) Give two examples from the book of accurate predictions.

Part 2) What is the connection between her obsessions with sex, death, and pregnancy and real life events?

Part 3) Does Freud believe she can predict the future? Why or why not?

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