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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The _________ is the element in dreams that frees dreamers to speak untruths.
(a) animal
(b) censor
(c) dialogue
(d) image

2. 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

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

4. These symbols must be translated ______________.
(a) in groups.
(b) quickly.
(c) within the context of the dreamer's life.
(d) one at a time.

5. 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) class
(b) meeting
(c) retreat
(d) lecture

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

7. The dream can not create or craft ___________.
(a) the future
(b) paintings
(c) lies
(d) speech

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

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

10. A dreamer who recognizes he is dreaming has slipped past the _____ that transpose the dream thoughts.
(a) images
(b) words
(c) actions
(d) censors

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

12. Freud uses the dream to discuss the _____ of the problematic nature of dream interpretation.
(a) challenge
(b) topic
(c) idea
(d) silliness

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

14. Evidence of ______________ does exist in sensory images and in the physical changes during dreaming.
(a) mental health healing
(b) delusions
(c) internal sensory impact
(d) psychic leanings

15. Freud does admit that some dreams contain symbols the are responding to ____________ stimuli.
(a) memory
(b) mental
(c) physical
(d) psychic

Short Answer 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.

2. The _________ of dreams cannot be denied.

3. Freud begins this chapter with a discussion of ___________.

4. Freud compares dream work to dream ___________.

5. The answer to #152 is not directed at the ________ itself but is applied appropriately to the dream content as a response by the dreamer.

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