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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Theory of Sexuality Continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the norm for translated texts?
(a) For the translator to travel to the foreign country to learn colloquial terms.
(b) For the translator to be referred to.
(c) For the publishing company to hire a translator to work with the author.
(d) For the author to translate it him or herself.

2. What does Freud refer to as an 'incurable ailment'?
(a) A side note.
(b) Doomed illness.
(c) A side issue.
(d) Dora.

3. In the chapter, "Dreams" what is the main concern dealing with dreams?
(a) That no one ever remembers them.
(b) That dreams can never be effectively interpreted.
(c) That they are correlated with your conscience.
(d) That they tell our biggest fears.

4. What does the "Deviations in respect of the sexual object" section address?
(a) Psychologically mixed gender that manifest mostly as bisexuality.
(b) Heterosexuality.
(c) Viewing the body as a sexual object.
(d) True homosexuality.

5. What characteristics make the "talking" or "listening" cure method most effective?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Honest speech and carefully cultivated listening modes.
(c) Displacement theory.
(d) Act of letting out one's rage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about children that are twelve years old in "The Theory of Sexuality"?

2. Who is mentioned as one of Freud's intellectual mentors?

3. How is Freud being viewed by the culture in the chapter "The Theory of Sexuality"?

4. What is periodic depression?

5. At the end of the chapter, "The Theory of Sexuality," what does Freud want to accomplish?

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