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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What comment does Freud cite as an example of #153?
(a) What a dream that was
(b) This isn't real
(c) After all, it is only a dream
(d) I must be dreaming

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

4. 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) lecture
(c) meeting
(d) retreat

5. The final component of dream formation is the __________ expressed by the dreamer during the dream.
(a) criticism
(b) openness
(c) energy
(d) ecstasy

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

7. Who said dreams appear without actual or appropriate emotional value?
(a) Freud
(b) Strumpell
(c) Stricker
(d) Hillebrandt

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

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

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

11. Who is the author of the theory of the nerve-stimulus dream?
(a) Jung
(b) Strumpell
(c) Hillebrandt
(d) Freud

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

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

14. How many characteristics are specific to the nature of the dream?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 7

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The _________ of dreams cannot be denied.

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

3. Freud notes that the nature of dreams as _____ items in which the intensity of the elements is displaced.

4. Freud thinks there is a difficulty in using dream examples when they are related out of ___________.

5. Dream interpretation must be _________ based.

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