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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Freud NOT mention therapists should assure their patients will not impede in therapy?
(a) Sex.
(b) Fear.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Suspiciousness.

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

3. What is the result of Freud's patient's experience in the chapter "Dreams"?
(a) She wants to see her mother.
(b) She is happy.
(c) She feels abused and used.
(d) She is hysterical.

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

5. 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) One is cured.
(c) Denial and anger.
(d) Radical transformation when the ego shifts from pleasure to reality principle.

6. What is another term used for periodic depression?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Melancholy.

7. How many different sections are used in Chapter 6, "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

8. What is the remainder of Freud's research in?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Drug addiction.

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

10. What affects the way dream ideas are interpreted?
(a) The goals of understanding the dream.
(b) What REM cycle we are in when analyzing.
(c) Our daily schedule.
(d) The amount of time we sleep.

11. According to Freud, around what does the study of psychoanalysis revolve?
(a) The desire to want to get better.
(b) Replacement of pleasure principle by reality.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Trusting one's therapist.

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

13. What specific knowledge troubles 'Dora' ?
(a) Seeing her mother die.
(b) That her mother is homosexual.
(c) Her father's extramarital affairs.
(d) Her mother's extramarital affairs.

14. What year was Freud's paper published that was mentioned in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1909.

15. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic for what Freud terms the 'anal character'?
(a) Parsimonious.
(b) Obstinate.
(c) Organized.
(d) Orderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter "Dreams," how are therapeutic symptoms achieved?

2. What is the norm for translated texts?

3. What does Freud reiterate is the first rule of psycho-analysis?

4. When was the classic of psycho-analysis published?

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

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