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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 kind of thought can provoke the liveliest opposition in Freud?
(a) The oldest.
(b) The most crass.
(c) The most innocuous.
(d) The least favorable.

2. What does the boy in Baldwin Groller's tale want?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A rhinoceros.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A puppy.

3. The second psychical apparatus has the advantage that its products find _____ to consciousness.
(a) A theoretic correlation.
(b) An open path.
(c) No clear opening.
(d) Vast explosive holes.

4. What symbol of sexuality does Freud associate with agriculture?
(a) Corn.
(b) Cows.
(c) Eggplant.
(d) Seed.

5. When someone is presented with a language that is not understood, the person falls back on what is _____.
(a) Conscious.
(b) Elevated.
(c) Familiar.
(d) Extreme.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the lady in the dream about the theater been married?

2. Freud calls his theory of the formation of dreams _____.

3. What is the mother awakened by, according to Burdach?

4. Freud deeply wishes that his affection required no _____.

5. Freud labels displacement as purely _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when the woman from the theater dream uncovers her repressed thoughts?

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

4. How do people compensate for not knowing the meaning of aspects of dreams?

5. What types of symbols exist in dreams?

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

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

8. Why do children sleep through the night?

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

10. What type of dream that expresses a desire is invariably accompanied by a feeling of dread and why?

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