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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the start of their second session, how does Breuer think the sessions should proceed?
(a) As a lecture.
(b) As a sort of confession.
(c) As a debate.
(d) As a question and answer section.

2. What does Breuer do for Nietzsche at the guest house?
(a) Gets his heart rate under control.
(b) Gives him pain pills.
(c) Covers him with ice packs.
(d) Gives him strong coffee.

3. What does Nietzsche plan to do when he returns to Breuer's office in two hours?
(a) Take his medical files.
(b) Pick up the prescription.
(c) Pay his bill and collect his books.
(d) Keep questioning Breuer's motives.

4. How does Breuer find Nietzsche at the guest house?
(a) In a near comatose state.
(b) Agitated and thrashing.
(c) Sleeping and drooling.
(d) In a drunken stupor.

5. How does Max characterize Breuer's behavior in class?
(a) Breuer dutifully took notes.
(b) Breuer failed most tests.
(c) Breuer argued with classmates.
(d) Breuer challenged the professors.

6. What tradition does the Breuer family hold with Mathilde's sister and their families?
(a) Friday evening supper.
(b) Birthday celebrations.
(c) Christmas caroling.
(d) Thanksgiving breakfast.

7. Breuer believes that both he and Nietzsche are suffering from _____________.
(a) A lack of friends.
(b) Too much research.
(c) Migraines.
(d) An obsession.

8. The morning after Nietzsche reads a letter from Elisabeth, what do Josef and Mathilde argue about?
(a) When Josef gets home from work.
(b) How much time Josef spends with his patients.
(c) Why Josef won't move offices.
(d) How much money Josef spends on himself.

9. What is Nietzsche's first reaction to Breuer's proposed plan?
(a) He thinks he should ask Lou about the plan.
(b) He laughs at the plan.
(c) He is eager to begin the plan.
(d) He is very opposed to the plan.

10. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer tell him about blindness?
(a) It is genetic.
(b) Research shows migraines contribute to blindness.
(c) Surgery prevents blindness.
(d) Migraines do not lead to blindness.

11. With whom does Breuer do his Friday ritual?
(a) Freud.
(b) Max.
(c) His sons.
(d) Betty Sue.

12. How does Breuer feel about Mathilde's meddling in his professional life a few months ago?
(a) He wishes she wasn't so mean.
(b) He thinks she was bored.
(c) He thinks she was unfair.
(d) He now realizes she was right.

13. According to Nietzsche, why has he agreed to meet with Breuer?
(a) He knew he needed help.
(b) He worried his other physicians were against him.
(c) He needed another prescription from a different doctor.
(d) His friends strongly recommended Breuer.

14. In Nietzsche's letter to Peter Gast, what does he write about concerning his hospital stay?
(a) He is excited about it.
(b) He dreads doing it.
(c) He doesn't trust Breuer.
(d) He knows he needs medicine.

15. How does Nietzsche behave toward Breuer as Breuer gets his heart under control?
(a) Reserved.
(b) Angry.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Irritated.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Nietzsche becomes lucid, how does he behave toward Breuer?

2. What does Nietzsche want to do for Breuer during their sessions?

3. As Breuer dismisses Nietzsche's final argument against treatment, what does Breuer ask Nietzsche about his treatment?

4. Who is Herr Schlegel?

5. At the start of their second session, Nietzsche and Breuer agree to try to work __________________.

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