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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are most people awakened by, according to Burdach?
(a) The opening of a door.
(b) The sound of their own names.
(c) The sounds of birds.
(d) The change of lighting.

2. What other phrase does Freud use for the state of repression?
(a) Overt denial.
(b) Incapacity of consciousness.
(c) Inaccuracy of consciousness.
(d) Covert denial.

3. What is the mother awakened by, according to Burdach?
(a) The fear of the dark.
(b) The whimpereing of her child.
(c) The presence of ghosts.
(d) The city sirens.

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

5. When someone is presented with a language that is not understood, the person falls back on what is _____.
(a) Familiar.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Elevated.
(d) Extreme.

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

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

8. Freud's idea of the facade comes about as a result of a regard for _____ concerning dreams.
(a) Dominance.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Intelligibility.
(d) Separation.

9. Freud states openly that there are certain thoughts Freud has about his dream of Mrs. E. L. that he doesn't want _____ to know.
(a) Mrs. E. L.
(b) His wife.
(c) Strangers.
(d) His mother.

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

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

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

13. What does the symbol of a room mean?
(a) A woman.
(b) A brain.
(c) The sky.
(d) The mind.

14. Who is the lady in the market dream at the market with?
(a) Her driver.
(b) Her infant.
(c) Her cook.
(d) Her husband.

15. The second class of dreams is a _____ realization of repressed desires.
(a) Outwardly obvious.
(b) Broken.
(c) Massively important.
(d) Perfectly concealed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dreams which express ______ desires constitute the larger number of dreams.

2. Most dreams of adults are traced by analysis to _____.

3. The acceptance of _____ is something found in dream work.

4. _____ is part of the foundation for the origin of many other psychological processes.

5. The ego is mainly concerned with _____.

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