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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Everything in dreams that seems to be _________ is not but is instead what Freud considers dream thoughts that find their way completely as latent dream content.
(a) intellectual
(b) simple
(c) useful
(d) logical

2. The answer to #152 is not directed at the ________ itself but is applied appropriately to the dream content as a response by the dreamer.
(a) dream
(b) interpretation
(c) dreamer
(d) study

3. Internal stimuli often stems from ___________.
(a) excitation
(b) guilt
(c) food
(d) heart troubles

4. Each image must be replaced with a ______ that will adequately represent the individual element.
(a) sound
(b) word
(c) interpretation
(d) color

5. What occurs frequently for the dreamer in relation to the characteristics specific to the dream?
(a) Displacement
(b) Poor interpretation
(c) Condensing
(d) Forgetfulness

6. There is another kind of displacement mentioned - the exchange of _______ content for mental content.
(a) people
(b) writing
(c) verbal
(d) symbols

7. What causes the dying person in the answer to #158 to actually die?
(a) He is set on fire.
(b) He is ill.
(c) Natural causes
(d) He doesn't die.

8. A __________ interpretation is required once the initial interpretation of a dream is done.
(a) scientific
(b) peaceful
(c) careful
(d) holistic

9. Expressions in ___________________ are not so difficult.
(a) the therapist's office
(b) condensed imagery
(c) family matters
(d) peaceful settings

10. Which of these is NOT considered to be a source of dreams, according to laymen?
(a) The weather
(b) Sleep positions
(c) Stomach ills
(d) Occurrences during sleep

11. Freud begins this chapter with a discussion of ___________.
(a) allegory
(b) representability
(c) changing dream theories
(d) retroactive dreaming

12. Which of these is NOT a form of stimuli?
(a) Internal
(b) Internal physical
(c) Sensory
(d) External

13. This displacement is also carried out as a _____________ of condensing.
(a) necessity
(b) facilitator
(c) instigator
(d) factor

14. Another dreamer dreams of a child with a deformed ___________.
(a) leg
(b) hand
(c) patella
(d) cranium

15. Freud also discusses the ____________ of dream content.
(a) desires
(b) inversion
(c) confusion
(d) allusion

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be correct or appropriate to the dream content, according to Freud?

2. What is very common as Freud states occurs in absurd dreams?

3. Dreams can be pointing to a ___________ or to history.

4. Freud says that writers neglect to include or make less important the somatic dream stimuli if they involve any ________ activity.

5. Who is the author of the theory of the nerve-stimulus dream?

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