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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Theory of Sexuality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud find causes symptoms of mental illness to subside?
(a) Allowing the patient and doctor to have a casual relationship.
(b) Listening attentively and compassionately.
(c) Letting the patient hit something.
(d) Telling the patient how to fix their problem.

2. What characteristics make the "talking" or "listening" cure method most effective?
(a) Honest speech and carefully cultivated listening modes.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Act of letting out one's rage.
(d) Displacement theory.

3. What is Dora in the chapter "Dreams"?
(a) The title of this section of the book.
(b) A theory created by Freud.
(c) Fragment of and Analysis of a Case of Hysteria.
(d) The reasoning behind hysterics.

4. What is 'Dora's' problem?
(a) She is a hysteric.
(b) She is a neurotic.
(c) She has an eating disorder.
(d) Her treatment is negatively affecting her home life.

5. According to the editor, from what does the current American society suffer?
(a) Anxiety related to recognizing and treating neuroses and hysteria.
(b) Obesity.
(c) Lack of perception into what they feel.
(d) Homosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the remainder of Freud's research in?

2. What does Freud find as the link of most neuroses?

3. Who is the first official patient of psychotherapy?

4. What reason is given for using the name Dora?

5. What does the editor explain about Freud in the Introduction?

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