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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do some of Freud's secret thoughts in dreams appear to him?
(a) Comforting.
(b) Mundane.
(c) Inaccurate.
(d) Foreign.

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

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

4. An adult learns to postpone _____.
(a) Eating.
(b) Aspirations.
(c) Sleep.
(d) The dream state.

5. What word does Freud use to describe his feelings toward the large disbursement of money he gives to his family member?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Regret.
(d) Guilt.

6. The community of symbols is often greater than the community of _____.
(a) Sounds.
(b) Rules.
(c) Gesture.
(d) Speech.

7. What leads to the same conclusion concerning the lady in the theater dream?
(a) Her past abuse patterns
(b) Her intellectual abilities.
(c) Her changing appearance.
(d) Her symptoms.

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

9. Censorship commands complete _____ when a person awakens.
(a) Distraction.
(b) Disintegration.
(c) Sway.
(d) Attention.

10. _____ is the deed of the dream work.
(a) Dream distortion.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Repression.
(d) Displacement.

11. How does some dream content that is sexual appear?
(a) Crass.
(b) Colorful.
(c) Innocently asexual.
(d) Extremely distorted.

12. The acceptance of _____ is something found in dream work.
(a) Social laws.
(b) Correlative creation.
(c) Superficial associations.
(d) Acute stimulus.

13. Most dreams of adults are traced by analysis to _____.
(a) Erotic desires.
(b) Food.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Water.

14. How many classes are dreams about the realization of desire divided into, according to Freud?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

15. What is Freud's role in the dream concerning the lady at the market?
(a) The butcher.
(b) Her father.
(c) The baker.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a child want when being put to sleep by his mother?

2. Freud states that _____ don't bother themselves with the psychology of repression.

3. Freud states that the study of dream symbolism is far from _____.

4. How long has the lady in the dream about the theater been married?

5. Censorship is never absent, it is merely _____ during sleep.

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