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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud notes the dreams are a part of the human ___________.
(a) experience
(b) brain
(c) condition
(d) psyche

2. Freud's method allows for interpretation of individual dreams as they apply to __________ dreamers.
(a) diseased
(b) all
(c) individual
(d) recurrent

3. Freud offers to prove the theory that dreams are not driven by ________.
(a) food
(b) logic
(c) morals
(d) past dreams

4. The main focus of Freud's book is the ___________ of dreams.
(a) interpreting
(b) sharing
(c) disproval
(d) dreaming

5. Freud must "_________" that dream content has actual meaning.
(a) understand
(b) insist
(c) prove
(d) explain

6. Included in the importance of forgetting dream matter is how __________________ a dream is.
(a) ordered or disordered
(b) light or heavy
(c) simple or difficult
(d) dark or light

7. Interpreting dreams as __________ theory is not a new idea, Freud admits.
(a) wish fulfillment
(b) cipher
(c) memory
(d) anxiety

8. Patients not only shared their dreams with Freud, but also their ______________.
(a) thoughts and feelings about the dreams
(b) memories of childhood
(c) journal pages about the dreams
(d) family's thoughts about the dreams

9. Freud seeks to prove the ______________ of a dream to the person's waking activities, thoughts, and feelings.
(a) connectedness
(b) importance
(c) symbols
(d) iIdeas

10. What requires a visit to the nature of memory in dreaming?
(a) The study of dream problems
(b) Traumas
(c) Childhood fears
(d) The study of verbal cues

11. The dream presents the idea in the dream by creating a ___________.
(a) pattern
(b) lie
(c) situation
(d) memory

12. According to Freud, dream content has actual ___________.
(a) logic
(b) symbols
(c) morals
(d) meaning

13. Freud also includes examples of the dreams of his own, his friends and of ____________.
(a) strangers
(b) ministers
(c) patients
(d) children

14. The dream is a significant ___________ tool.
(a) mental health
(b) psychic
(c) divinatory
(d) life

15. Who should take heed of sayings that reveal the simple truth of dreams as wish fulfillment?
(a) Jungians
(b) Analysts
(c) Men
(d) Patients

Short Answer Questions

1. What tends to appear in dreams?

2. Freud discusses __________ versus __________ dream content.

3. The ideas the dreamer has during the day carry over into the sleeping hours as __________________.

4. Freud works to isolate the problem of how ___________ psychology plays a part in dream psychology.

5. Lay theories are illogical and lack the ________ to deny the importance of dreams.

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