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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. What does Freud say did not accompany any aspect of the dream process in regards to his dream of Mrs. E.L.?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Contradiction.
(c) Inuendo.
(d) Food.

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

3. What is the name of the new investigative tool that Freud uses to interpret dreams?
(a) Psychoanalysis.
(b) Shock therapy.
(c) The scientific method.
(d) Impressionism.

4. The _____ language of the poets is thought to be important in dreams by Freud.
(a) Disconcerting.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Venerated.
(d) Figurative.

5. The third group of dreams is categorized as _____.
(a) Coherent.
(b) Meaningless.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Medical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the food that the twenty-two-month-old boy was supposed to give to his uncle?

2. How does Freud characterize the question as to the meaning of the dream?

3. What does Freud call the ideas encompassing the thought that dreams are worthless in their content?

4. What does Freud say impairs a patient's ability to impart ideas about his obsessions?

5. The presentation of causal connections between two ideas is often reversed, beginning with deduction and ending in _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Freud's dream example of the bathers, how does condensation occur?

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

8. When Freud is reminded of Auer's Light by the glass hat, what conclusion does he come to?

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

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

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