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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Character and Anal Eroticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud state is the purpose for his work?
(a) To understand his mother's mental illness.
(b) To heal people through psychoanalysis.
(c) To analyze peoples way of thinking.
(d) To understand people's sexuality.

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

3. What is a specific difficulty of Freud's research?
(a) The interference of his drug use.
(b) The illnesses of 'Dora'.
(c) He was blind.
(d) The intangibility of the subject matter.

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

5. What is periodic depression?
(a) Depression that comes and goes.
(b) It is similar to episodic depression.
(c) Depression in women that occurs during their cycle.
(d) A specific type of anxiety neurosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud find as the cause of most neuroses?

2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic for what Freud terms the 'anal character'?

3. What does the editor explain about Freud in the Introduction?

4. What is one of the terms introduced that is one or a bundle of behavioral symptoms that shows something is 'wrong'?

5. Who is the editor of The Freud Reader?

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