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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud deeply wishes that his affection required no _____.
(a) Displacement.
(b) Work.
(c) Outlay.
(d) Cordiality.

2. What symbol of sexuality does Freud associate with agriculture?
(a) Corn.
(b) Seed.
(c) Cows.
(d) Eggplant.

3. The ego is mainly concerned with _____.
(a) The awakening of the dreamer.
(b) The organization of dream material.
(c) The preservation of the body.
(d) The continuance of sleep.

4. What does Freud say is the guardian of sleep?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Religion.
(c) Parents.
(d) Pillows.

5. Displacement is in the nature of a _____.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Motive.
(c) Scene.
(d) Deduction.

6. Certain _____ occur in dream content when a person is asleep.
(a) Alterations.
(b) Correlations.
(c) Confrontations.
(d) Magnifications.

7. Censorship is never absent, it is merely _____ during sleep.
(a) Asleep.
(b) Hiding.
(c) Lying to a person.
(d) Off guard.

8. Freud calls his theory of the formation of dreams _____.
(a) Crude.
(b) Guesswork.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Inconclusive.

9. What is the name of the woman who is the friend of the woman who has the theater dream?
(a) Miss Elise L---.
(b) Miss Cane.
(c) Mrs. E. L.
(d) Madame Lorenzo.

10. In an attempt to bring order and meaning to a strange dream, a person wakes up and regards the dream as being _____.
(a) Quite mad.
(b) Fully understandable.
(c) Infuriating at best.
(d) Utterly engaging.

11. What part of the content is not to be interpreted symbolically?
(a) Latent.
(b) Original.
(c) Manifest.
(d) The whole.

12. What is the job of Burdach?
(a) Psychoanalist.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Physiologist.
(d) Plumber.

13. Freud categorizes the woman's dream about the funeral as one of _____.
(a) Coping.
(b) Impatience.
(c) Paralysis.
(d) Dread.

14. The second psychical apparatus has the advantage that its products find _____ to consciousness.
(a) An open path.
(b) No clear opening.
(c) A theoretic correlation.
(d) Vast explosive holes.

15. Freud sees it as impossible not to recognize a causal relationship between _____ and the state of repression.
(a) Physical abuse.
(b) Obscurity of dream content.
(c) Food intake.
(d) Attitude of family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the _____ of the two psychical apparatuses exists censorship.

2. What is the name of the type of reasoning Freud uses to illustrate his point regarding calculations in dreams?

3. The day of the dream, the woman had taken a ticket to a/an _____ by the man she loved.

4. When someone is presented with a language that is not understood, the person falls back on what is _____.

5. What is a child full of when being put to sleep by his mother?

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