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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. How does Freud say that dreams were regarded by pre-scientific people upon wakening in terms of manifestation of higher powers?
(a) As worthless.
(b) As informative.
(c) As friendly or hostile.
(d) As instructional for the future.

2. Where does Mrs. E.L. put her hand in Freud's dream?
(a) On his knee.
(b) On his hand.
(c) On his head.
(d) Over her face.

3. What was the antique shawl that Freud gave one of his friends a charm against?
(a) The plague.
(b) Animal spirits.
(c) Dragons.
(d) The Malocchio.

4. The presentation of causal connections between two ideas is often reversed, beginning with deduction and ending in _____.
(a) Failure.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Detailed correlation.
(d) Hypothesis.

5. The first dream thoughts which are unraveled by analysis are striking because of their _____.
(a) Depnedence on color.
(b) Dependence on action.
(c) Predictable plot.
(d) Unusual wording.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud tells the reader to conceive of a politician's address in _____ to understand the process that takes place in converting events into dreams.

2. Why did the father of the girl of six cut her trip short?

3. What type of reminiscences are typical of dreams?

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

5. What is the salient feature of the manifest content of the dreams of children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is does Freud think the role of love is in the dream of Mrs. E.L.?

2. What does Freud mean by the "common mean"?

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

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

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

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

7. What is manifest content of dreams?

8. What is Freud's impression of the ideas about dreams that were espoused by the medical profession of his time?

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

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

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