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

2. Why does Freud write that the woman must have homosexual tendencies?

3. How does Vera Serebryakova break her arm?

4. When does Lisa no longer believe in the resurrection?

5. Lisa admits her sexual hang ups are connected to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Anna admit about her husband?

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

4. How does Anna feel about her writings?

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

6. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

7. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

8. About what tragic events does Lisa learn?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Lisa is preoccupied and obsessed with pregnancy.

Part 1) What images does the author use to portray this?

Part 2) Why is she preoccupied with pregnancy?

Part 3) How do her obsession with and premonitions about pregnancy come to fruition in her real life?

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