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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is also defined by one or more symptoms in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Hysteria.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Neuroses.
(d) Psychology.

2. What does Freud say is a type of mental pathology?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Anxiety neuroses.
(c) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
(d) Transference.

3. What is also included in the section about understanding human sexuality in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) The female menstrual cycle.
(b) Menopause.
(c) The difference of infantile and adult sexuality.
(d) Male and female puberty.

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

5. According to Freud, what type of discernible relationship is typically found in what he calls the 'anal character'?
(a) A symbiotic relationship of physical and mental well being.
(b) One with a particular part of the body and its sensitivity.
(c) Insomnia to depression.
(d) The peace of mind to that of daily stress.

6. What characteristics make the "talking" or "listening" cure method most effective?
(a) Act of letting out one's rage.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Honest speech and carefully cultivated listening modes.
(d) Displacement theory.

7. How does the therapist of the nicknamed patient term his descriptions of childhood experiences?
(a) Obsessive in quantity.
(b) Obsessive in quality.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Hateful.

8. What does Freud refer to as an 'incurable ailment'?
(a) A side note.
(b) A side issue.
(c) Dora.
(d) Doomed illness.

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

10. What does Freud say about children that are twelve years old in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) They grow out of their candy phase.
(b) Most lose their desire to marry their parents.
(c) They begin to notice sexual desires.
(d) They understand gender differences.

11. What did the nicknamed patient repeatedly suffer from in "Character and Anal Eroticism"?
(a) Sleep apnea.
(b) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
(c) Difficult thoughts.
(d) Mild hallucinations.

12. What does Freud include about one's sexual preference?
(a) How to prevent pregnancy.
(b) The meaning of one's adolescent love is a forerunner of their future sexual preference.
(c) How to prevent inversion.
(d) How to decipher one's sexual desire.

13. In the chapter "Dreams," how are therapeutic symptoms achieved?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) By talking and listening to what is being said.
(d) By looking for their physical significance.

14. Who is the first official patient of psychotherapy?
(a) Charcot.
(b) John Kerry.
(c) Dora.
(d) Anna O.

15. Who did the translations of Freud's work from German to English?
(a) Freud.
(b) Peter Gay.
(c) It is unclear who translated the text.
(d) W. W. Norton and Company Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'Dora's' problem?

2. What does the "Inversion, absolute, amphigenic and contingent" section address?

3. What does Freud state is the purpose for his work?

4. What is Dora in the chapter "Dreams"?

5. According to Freud, what does he suggest the heterosexual norm of parents typically lead to?

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