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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The discussion of calculating dreams is to prove that dreams do not ____________, but merely include numbers and the art of calculating.
(a) predict financial success
(b) make sense
(c) teach math
(d) calculate

2. _______ and body stimuli are the physical sources of dreams, according to Freud.
(a) Nerve
(b) Lung
(c) Head
(d) Skin

3. Whose findings does Freud cite at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Carter
(b) Jung
(c) Stricker
(d) Hillebrandt

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

5. The _________ of dreams cannot be denied.
(a) truth
(b) meaning
(c) affect
(d) frequency

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

7. The displacement is carried out as ____________ of one idea for another.
(a) replacement
(b) moving
(c) transitioning
(d) the discovery

8. 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

9. What causes the answer to #159?
(a) Nothing
(b) God
(c) A fallen candle
(d) Cancer

10. It is never definite whether the dream is to be regarded as ____________ or ___________.
(a) helpful, harmful
(b) painful, happy
(c) useful, not helpful
(d) positive, negative

11. A __________ interpretation of dreams is an attempt to interpret one's dream by looking at one piece at a time.
(a) bit
(b) piecemeal
(c) fractional
(d) worthwhile

12. In interpreting dreams, the elements that are uncovered must be seen as a _________ whole.
(a) steady
(b) clear
(c) fragmented
(d) unified

13. Freud begins with the retelling of a dream that one of his patients had after hearing the story of the same dream at a ___________.
(a) meeting
(b) retreat
(c) class
(d) lecture

14. What can threaten to undermine the very foundation of our efforts at dream interpretation?
(a) Doubters
(b) Memory
(c) Science
(d) Other theorists

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud also discusses the ____________ of dream content.

2. A dreamer who recognizes he is dreaming has slipped past the _____ that transpose the dream thoughts.

3. __________ is likely linked to the nature of sleep.

4. Dream interpretation must not be based on ________ or exaggerated assumptions.

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

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