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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. Where does the boy in the Dachstein trip refuse to go?
(a) To the waterfall.
(b) To the farm.
(c) To the peak.
(d) To the bear caves.

2. Since the downfall of mythological hypothesis in dreams, Freud writes that interpretation of the dream has been _____.
(a) Horrifying.
(b) Somewhat delusional.
(c) Wanting.
(d) Brilliant.

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

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

5. In Freud's estimation, the dream about Mrs. E.L. is used as an example because it has the advantage of _____.
(a) Brevity.
(b) Continuity.
(c) Detail.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Condensation and _____ do not wholly account for the difference between dream contents and dream thoughts.

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

3. Freud compares his idea of composite figures to the _____ compositions of people from the Orient.

4. What does Freud say the boy of eight sees the heroes that he reads about as?

5. The first category of dreams is classified as _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud discover the meaning of the propyl injection in one of his dreams?

2. Why does the eight-year-old boy in one of Freud's examples dream of mythical events?

3. Why does the little girl in the example Freud gives dream of strawberries and eggs?

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

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

6. How do the photographs of Francis Galton relate to Freud's idea of common factors in dreams?

7. What does Freud view as the popular view of the nature of dreams?

8. How does Freud use psychoanalysis when he has a patient experiences morbid dread?

9. What is the role of self-criticism in relation to morbid dread?

10. What does Freud mean by "paradox of content"?

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