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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The _____ of mixed images is often the quickest way to the interpretation of dreams.
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Composition.
(c) Inclusion.
(d) Decomposition.

2. Who attacks the writings of Mr. M--- in Freud's dream?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Keats.
(d) Goethe.

3. What sort of trip did the three-and-a-half-year-old girl go on?
(a) Sea.
(b) Carriage.
(c) Hiking.
(d) Plane.

4. What does Freud say that the popular view of the interpretation of dreams is grounded in?
(a) Superstition.
(b) Holism.
(c) Controversy.
(d) Fact.

5. What does the doctor assure a patient he is working with that is not a possible state of mind to be in?
(a) A misplaced on.
(b) A hysterical one.
(c) A blank one.
(d) A concentrated one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sitting on the bench with Freud in the dream where he is riding in a carriage?

2. What does the patient whose sister has come to Freud for help say over and over?

3. Which medical writer does Freud quote when he speaks of the medical views of his time on the nature of dreams?

4. What is the state of the psychical intensity of the dream in the relation to its sensory vividness?

5. Freud asks the question, can sense be made of each single dream as of other_____?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues come to Freud's mind regarding manifest and latent content?

2. How does Freud describe the dreamer's reaction to dreams upon waking?

3. Why does the five-year-old boy in one of Freud's examples dream of ascending the Dachstein?

4. What is the function of the ego in dreams?

5. What happens when there is nothing in common between dream thoughts?

6. What does Freud quote Schubert as saying about dreams and what is meant by this?

7. What tendency does Freud say have been observed in the estimation of dreams by philosophers?

8. What is the nature of Freud's relationship with Mrs. E.L.?

9. Why does the sick girl in one of Freud's examples dream of being too big for the bed she is sleeping in?

10. What are the contradictory concepts in the woman's dream about the flower stalk?

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