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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does a child want when being put to sleep by his mother?
(a) A dream chaser.
(b) Another kiss.
(c) A schedule of events.
(d) A trip to the zoo.

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

5. Freud says that _____ believes what it wishes to believe in terms of dreams about foretelling the future.
(a) The mind.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Parapsychology.
(d) Folk psychology.

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

7. What must be removed for a child to get to sleep?
(a) All external stimuli.
(b) All excess blankets.
(c) All need for bodily functions to be addressed.
(d) All sense of fear.

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

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

10. Dreams which express ______ desires constitute the larger number of dreams.
(a) Ancient.
(b) Obvious.
(c) Veiled.
(d) Happy.

11. The day of the dream, the woman had taken a ticket to a/an _____ by the man she loved.
(a) Play.
(b) Art show.
(c) Lecture.
(d) Concert.

12. Freud states that the study of dream symbolism is far from _____.
(a) Center.
(b) Correct.
(c) Finality.
(d) Accuracy.

13. What kind of thought can provoke the liveliest opposition in Freud?
(a) The least favorable.
(b) The oldest.
(c) The most crass.
(d) The most innocuous.

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

15. Dream symbolism proves indispensable in dreams that _____.
(a) Occur int he morning.
(b) Involve family members.
(c) Repeat themselves.
(d) Occur after eating too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol of sexuality does Freud associate with agriculture?

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

3. Censorship commands complete _____ when a person awakens.

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

5. What is the chief motive for the distortion of dreams?

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