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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Beginning Treatment, Transference-Love and A Male Choice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the patient that makes her sick in "The Making of Psychoanalysis"?
(a) Her father is dying.
(b) Her mother is dying.
(c) She lost her baby.
(d) She has a brain tumor.

2. What happens in the pre-pubescent period of child development?
(a) A child develops a sexual drive.
(b) The child forgets his love for a relative.
(c) A child develops a sexual preference.
(d) A child questions sexuality consciously.

3. What does the editor say about the patient's healing in "The Making of Psychoanalysis"?
(a) It shows the temporariness of mental illness.
(b) It shows that physical and mental illness are separate.
(c) It shows you have to fight for it.
(d) It shows she never was sick to begin with.

4. What does Freud want to constantly be reminded of throughout his book?
(a) These are all hypotheses.
(b) The mind and body forever change, so nothing is permanent.
(c) He tested and proved everything he declares.
(d) Hysterical and neurotic symptoms can be cured.

5. According to the editor, from what does the current American society suffer?
(a) Obesity.
(b) Anxiety related to recognizing and treating neuroses and hysteria.
(c) Lack of perception into what they feel.
(d) Homosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sections does Freud say most patients divide their therapy in?

2. Who does Freud criticize in the beginning of "Therapy and Technique"?

3. According to Freud, what type of woman is most likely to withhold information during therapy?

4. What is periodic depression?

5. What does Freud find causes symptoms of mental illness to subside?

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