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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nietzsche want to do for Breuer during their sessions?
(a) To stop his gambling.
(b) To clear his mind from cheating.
(c) To grant him forgiveness.
(d) To elevate Breuer's thoughts and perspective.

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

3. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer tell him about brain disease?
(a) His family history suggests brain disease.
(b) The chances are likely he will devlop brain disease.
(c) Little research is done on brain disease.
(d) There is no evidence that he has a progressive brain disease.

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

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

6. After the second session, what does Lou give Breuer?
(a) Letters from Nietzsche.
(b) Money.
(c) More of Nietzsche's books.
(d) Food.

7. After Lou storms out, what does Breuer try to get Nietzsche to open up about during the session?
(a) The loss of his job.
(b) His financial problems.
(c) Lou Salome.
(d) His academic struggles.

8. When Nietzsche becomes lucid, how does he behave toward Breuer?
(a) Thankful and weepy.
(b) Mad and shameful.
(c) Quiet and embarrassed.
(d) Icy and reserved.

9. What do Max and Breuer do together on Friday nights?
(a) Debate politics.
(b) Play chess.
(c) Watch movies.
(d) Read the paper.

10. How does Breuer try to get Nietzsche to agree to his desired course of treatment?
(a) Breuer uses Nietzsche's books to support his ideas.
(b) Breuer quotes Lou in his arguments.
(c) Breuer insults Nietzsche's former doctors.
(d) Breuer applies argument after argument.

11. On the Monday morning following his illness, when does Nietzsche plan to see Breuer again?
(a) Never.
(b) In a month.
(c) When he is ill again.
(d) Later that night.

12. Why does Breuer plan only to treat Nietzsche's body?
(a) He doesn't have the background or knowledge to treat his mind.
(b) He believes his only true ailments are physical.
(c) He knows Nietzsche will only allow him to treat his body.
(d) He is only concerned with his body.

13. What does Nietzsche accuse Breuer of being after Nietzsche refuses the treatment plan Breuer designed for him?
(a) He is wrong and stubborn.
(b) He is unknowledgeable and pushy.
(c) He is prideful and arrogant.
(d) He is cruel and unkind.

14. What does Breuer normally do later on Friday evenings?
(a) Retires to his study.
(b) Puts wood in the fireplace.
(c) Sips brandy in bed.
(d) Cleans the kitchen.

15. As Breuer dismisses Nietzsche's final argument against treatment, what does Nietzsche prepare to do?
(a) Visit his editor.
(b) Teach a class.
(c) Leave Breuer's office.
(d) Go to the store.

Short Answer Questions

1. During their second session, what does Breuer confess about his feelings towards his professional and personal life?

2. Where did Max and Breuer first meet?

3. After he is better, where does Nietzsche want to go?

4. At the pastry shop, how does Freud react to Breuer's feelings concerning Bertha?

5. In the middle of the night following Breuer's conversation with Max, who pounds on Breuer's door?

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