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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 say is needed to understand human sexuality in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Knowledge of how sex works prevents pregnancies.
(b) One must have sex.
(c) Scientific research.
(d) Separate aberrations from healthy sexuality.

2. What has likely happened to the translations of Freud's work?
(a) They have been proliferated.
(b) They are completely different.
(c) They have multiple versions.
(d) They have been changed from the original text.

3. What type of change do sexual instincts undergo during this period of psychoanalysis?
(a) The patient cannot change his or her mind about receiving treatment.
(b) Radical transformation when the ego shifts from pleasure to reality principle.
(c) One is cured.
(d) Denial and anger.

4. What does Freud reiterate is the first rule of psycho-analysis?
(a) To speak freely.
(b) To trust one's therapist.
(c) For the therapist to listen to the patient.
(d) To undergo hypnosis.

5. What characteristics does Freud's mentor have?
(a) He is handsome.
(b) He is soft spoken and easy to get along with.
(c) He has an instinct for diagnosis.
(d) He is attentive and a good listener.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the patient nicknamed in "Obsessional Neuroses"?

2. What does Freud say about children that are twelve years old in "The Theory of Sexuality"?

3. What characteristics make the "talking" or "listening" cure method most effective?

4. What happens in the pre-pubescent period of child development?

5. What is periodic depression?

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