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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud term thoughts and behaviors interconnected with the psyche?
(a) Transference.
(b) Complex.
(c) Inversions.
(d) Homosexuality.

2. What does Freud say happens if a totem's skin is worn?
(a) They are burned.
(b) They wear it for 7 days.
(c) They never take the skin off.
(d) If used in rituals, they are treated in a special way.

3. What does Freud say about predominate cases of incestuous activity?
(a) They aren't physically acted on.
(b) They are genetic.
(c) They are suppressed emotions.
(d) They are physically acted on.

4. What does Freud say is NOT a sign of a person's general inferiority?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Neurotic analysis.
(c) Transference.
(d) Mental illness.

5. What does Freud frequently write about being connected to incestuous feelings?
(a) Conscious material.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Being nurse fed.
(d) Unconscious material.

6. How does Freud define homosexuality?
(a) Secondary to Totem and Taboo.
(b) The same sex liking each other.
(c) He calls it transference.
(d) As an emotional attitude rather than actual behavior.

7. What does Freud say is needed to reach superior pleasure in therapy?
(a) Trusting his or her therapist.
(b) Being honest.
(c) An open mind.
(d) Foregoing immediate pleasure.

8. What does Freud suggest could avoid homosexuality in males?
(a) Having a more present father.
(b) Watching football.
(c) Playing sports with their father.
(d) Having a mean mother.

9. What sheer coincidence is mentioned in "Psychoanalysis in Culture" about Freud that relates to competitive jealousy?
(a) He liked his oldest daughter the best.
(b) He thought this was irrelevant to the subject.
(c) He was jealous too.
(d) His third and youngest daughter become of especial interest to him.

10. According to Freud, how does a narcissistic individual treat his or her body?
(a) They bruise it.
(b) With utmost care.
(c) As a sexual object.
(d) With love and obsession.

11. What was Freud's professed religious standpoint?
(a) He was an atheist.
(b) He was Jewish.
(c) He was Baptist.
(d) He was Catholic.

12. What does Freud deem as DaVinci's characteristic as a painter?
(a) One type of eye shape.
(b) Using watercolors.
(c) Using only neutral colors.
(d) One type of smile.

13. What type of love does Freud say is sometimes the best and most true?
(a) Giving.
(b) Dutiful.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Kind.

14. What does Freud rename the term 'subconscious'?
(a) Misleading.
(b) Wrong.
(c) One's innate desires.
(d) An impulse.

15. What part of the body is addressed in the two accounts on this Biblical figure?
(a) His arm.
(b) His heart.
(c) His beard.
(d) His eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud connect to incestuous feelings?

2. How long is a typical therapeutic session?

3. What is the name of Freud's daughter who is mentioned?

4. According to Freud, when will a homosexual man tend to have homosexual behavior?

5. How does Freud make his conclusion on DaVinci's sexual preference?

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