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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dreams which contain material of which we are not aware in our waking state are called what?
(a) Unimportant
(b) Hyperamnesiac
(c) Boring
(d) Forgettable

2. The main focus of Freud's book is the ___________ of dreams.
(a) disproval
(b) interpreting
(c) dreaming
(d) sharing

3. Freud says that the doctrine is not based on an interpretation of the obvious _______ of dream content.
(a) parts
(b) symbols
(c) memories
(d) background

4. Many ______ dreams are strictly painful dreams and appear to have nothing to do with wish fulfillment.
(a) childhood
(b) sexual
(c) torture
(d) recurring

5. Dreams make explicit reference to the ___________ day.
(a) preceding
(b) next
(c) ideal
(d) end of the

6. Freud's method allows for interpretation of individual dreams as they apply to __________ dreamers.
(a) all
(b) diseased
(c) recurrent
(d) individual

7. Who wrote the studies on anxiety dreams in children?
(a) Jung
(b) Debacker
(c) Freud
(d) von Hartman

8. Freud does not believe one set of _________ applies to everyone.
(a) dreams
(b) theories
(c) codes
(d) memories

9. Freud notes that the world only has __________ limited methods for dream interpretation, both of which are worthless according to him.
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 5

10. Freud hopes he will be able to _______ the dream process.
(a) argue
(b) clarify
(c) discover
(d) identify

11. What is another form of the childhood memory?
(a) The wish fulfillment dream
(b) The nonsense dream
(c) The anxiety dream
(d) The recurring dream

12. The ____________ of dreams is a manifestation of subjective feelings, desires, and passions.
(a) images
(b) willfullness
(c) ideas
(d) complexity

13. The dream for the __________ is not meaningless or absurd.
(a) child
(b) family
(c) author
(d) doctor

14. The dream is best categorized as ____________ and subjective.
(a) obtuse
(b) incoherent
(c) objective
(d) muddled

15. How many types of tendencies or systems exist in every human in relation to dream content?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Schleiermacher's theory, when we are away, we experience brain activity through ______.

2. Patients not only shared their dreams with Freud, but also their ______________.

3. Freud must "_________" that dream content has actual meaning.

4. The exact truth of the memory of the dreamer is questionable because we almost always take ________ with the truth.

5. Times older than one day are remembered the day before the dream and thus are still only __________.

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