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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The bulk of dream interpretation is done on the __________ content.
(a) manifest
(b) superficial
(c) latent
(d) childhood

2. Freud says that writers neglect to include or make less important the somatic dream stimuli if they involve any ________ activity.
(a) psychic
(b) animal
(c) color
(d) family

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

4. The dream is an amalgamation of many kinds of __________, according to Freud.
(a) theories
(b) ideas
(c) memories
(d) stimuli

5. Freud notes that the nature of dreams as _____ items in which the intensity of the elements is displaced.
(a) radical
(b) flavorful
(c) enjoyable
(d) compressed

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

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

8. Dream interpretation must not be based on ________ or exaggerated assumptions.
(a) childish
(b) crazy
(c) false
(d) simple

9. There is also mention of a dream in which a trip during a storm to a ____________ that is soaked through.
(a) hotel
(b) train
(c) car
(d) tent

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

11. __________ is likely linked to the nature of sleep.
(a) Dreaming
(b) Interpretation
(c) Symbols
(d) Forgetting

12. The true nature of ______ is not recognized in the dream, but is usually mistaken for something else.
(a) symbols
(b) memories
(c) sound
(d) stimuli

13. 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) study
(b) dreamer
(c) interpretation
(d) dream

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud compares dream work to dream ___________.

2. It is never definite whether the dream is to be regarded as ____________ or ___________.

3. The changes of __________ facilitates more than one thought.

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

5. A __________ interpretation is required once the initial interpretation of a dream is done.

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