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

2. To what does Freud relate the woman's history?

3. What does Lisa experience for the first time?

4. What does Freud say the focus on orality ("sucking, biting, eating, gorging, taking in") reflects?

5. Why do Lisa and Victor take a trip on a passenger ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the interaction between Lisa and her mother.

2. How is Anna when she returns from Gastein?

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

4. Describe Vera Serebryokova?

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

6. What is happening to Lisa's desires?

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

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

9. How does Lisa feel in Kiev? Why?

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

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 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?

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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