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

2. Freud categorizes the woman's dream about the funeral as one of _____.
(a) Dread.
(b) Coping.
(c) Impatience.
(d) Paralysis.

3. What is the mother awakened by, according to Burdach?
(a) The city sirens.
(b) The fear of the dark.
(c) The whimpereing of her child.
(d) The presence of ghosts.

4. At the _____ of the two psychical apparatuses exists censorship.
(a) Edge.
(b) Borderline.
(c) Intersections.
(d) Opening.

5. Where repression exists without concealment, the dream is brought to an end by a feeling of _____.
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Dread.
(d) Elation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most dreams of adults are traced by analysis to _____.

2. Displacement is in the nature of a _____.

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

4. How do some of Freud's secret thoughts in dreams appear to him?

5. Certain _____ occur in dream content when a person is asleep.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is displacement the most striking of all dream performances?

2. What is a syllogism and how does it relate to Freud's theory of dream calculations?

3. What is the nature of adult dreams, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say the ability of dreams to tell the future?

5. What is the difference between adults and children in terms of the knowledge of reality?

6. How do definite dreams of painful content fit into Freud's three classes of dreams according to their relationship to desire?

7. How do speeches use the same idea as calculations in dreams?

8. What are the foundational elements of the origin of many psychological processes, and how are they observed?

9. How are forgetting and suppression related?

10. What happens as a result of the dreamer's lack of knowledge of symbols?

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