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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 does Breuer find Nietzsche at the guest house?

2. What does the person who pounds on Breuer's door tell him?

3. According to Nietzsche's notes, how does he feel about his and Breuer's discussion during the second session?

4. After Lou storms out and the session continues, how do both men feel?

5. Why does Breuer plan only to treat Nietzsche's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the first session between Nietzsche and Breuer?

2. How does Breuer begin treating Nietzsche once Nietzsche won't go to treatment?

3. What makes Breuer even more desperate to help Nietzsche after he saves his life?

4. How does Breuer feel as Nietzsche leaves his office?

5. Why would Breuer begin the consultations with the same approach that he has previously used?

6. What is the importance of the setting for Josef and Mathilde's argument?

7. How is Breuer the evening after Nietzsche leaves his office without treatment?

8. What does the letter to Peter Gast reveal?

9. What kind of relationship does Breuer have with Max as opposed to Mathilde?

10. How does Breuer feel about his success in treating Nietzsche?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the effect of having characters which readers never meet?

Essay Topic 2

How is Lou Salome's character an anachronism ?

Essay Topic 3

What is the deepest symbol of the novel and why?

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