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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say that the popular view of the interpretation of dreams is grounded in?
(a) Fact.
(b) Holism.
(c) Controversy.
(d) Superstition.

2. Why did the father of the girl of six cut her trip short?
(a) Because she was sick.
(b) Because he was sick.
(c) Because it was late.
(d) Because she was hungry.

3. What does Freud say the boy of eight sees the heroes that he reads about as?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Models.
(c) Father figures.
(d) Teachers.

4. What was he seeking from his wife in the incident before the dream of Mrs. E. L., in Freud's conclusion in Chapter 4?
(a) A kiss.
(b) Undivided attention.
(c) Money.
(d) Access to her dowry.

5. The painter in Freud's example groups all poets together for his painting of _____.
(a) Parnassus.
(b) Tritan.
(c) Magnus.
(d) Colossus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness does the girl that has the dream about the bed have?

2. Freud says that many philosophers maintain that dreams have their origin in _____.

3. What is the nature of the element that Freud decides is the most direct offspring of the principal dream thought?

4. The first dream thoughts which are unraveled by analysis are striking because of their _____.

5. The third group of dreams is categorized as _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues come to Freud's mind regarding manifest and latent content?

2. What happens if the idea of dream displacement is abolished during analysis?

3. How does Freud feel that the dream's means of expression compare to that of a person's imagination?

4. What does Freud mean by the "common mean"?

5. What happens when there is nothing in common between dream thoughts?

6. How does Freud discover the meaning of the propyl injection in one of his dreams?

7. What is does Freud think the role of love is in the dream of Mrs. E.L.?

8. Why does the eight-year-old boy in one of Freud's examples dream of mythical events?

9. What is the nature of Freud's relationship with Mrs. E.L.?

10. Why does the sick girl in one of Freud's examples dream of being too big for the bed she is sleeping in?

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