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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lou's relationship with Nietzsche and Paul Ree begin?

2. How does Breuer view Freud in relation to himself?

3. Why did Nietzsche have to resign as a professor?

4. Why does Josef break off his conversation with Lou during their first meeting?

5. What does Breuer believe physicians should offer to patients?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contributes to Nietzsche being a difficult patient?

2. What expectations does Breuer have concerning Nietzsche?

3. What does Nietzsche's life style say about him?

4. Are Elisabeth's actions helping or hurting Nietzsche and why?

5. What is Lou's attitude about Nietzsche during her first meetings with Josef?

6. Why would Nietzsche write books that he allows his publisher to hide?

7. What can readers infer about the effort of so many people working to get Nietzsche into treatment?

8. How does Breuer's patient list characterize him?

9. What is Freud's relationship with Josef's family?

10. Why would the author leave Chapter 5 with Nietzsche ready to ask Breuer three questions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Breuer's control over situations at his office and at the hospital differ? Why would this be?

Essay Topic 2

How is the title accurate in its promise of a turning point of "When Nietzsche Wept"?

Essay Topic 3

What is the effect, if any, of these 'real characters' being in a book of fiction?

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