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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud view the woman's complaint about her therapist's advice?
(a) The patient was not allowing the treatment to take full effect.
(b) The therapist was entirely correct.
(c) Their is a distortion between what the therapist said and how it was taken by the patient.
(d) The therapist is careless with the patient's feelings.

2. What are two symptoms of periodic depression mentioned in "Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Mood swings.
(c) Anger.
(d) Social withdrawal and irritability.

3. What does "The Sexual Aberrations" section address?
(a) Sex addictions.
(b) Bisexuality.
(c) True homosexuality.
(d) Heterosexuality.

4. What has likely happened to the translations of Freud's work?
(a) They are completely different.
(b) They have been changed from the original text.
(c) They have multiple versions.
(d) They have been proliferated.

5. Who is the editor of The Freud Reader?
(a) Pete Graves.
(b) Gary Peters.
(c) Peter Gay.
(d) Pete Gary.

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

7. According to Freud, what is transference?
(a) A requirement for the therapeutic process to be effective.
(b) Transferring one feeling to a different emotional outlook.
(c) Taking one's emotions out on another human being.
(d) Transferring oneself to assess his or her own self.

8. In psychology, what is a major form of organization and research?
(a) A case study.
(b) A draft.
(c) An outline.
(d) An experiment.

9. What does Freud mention happens when a person endeavors to practice psychoanalysis, but has little experience?
(a) Errors made.
(b) Misdiagnosis.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Misinterpreting someone's grievances.

10. What does Freud say is a type of mental pathology?
(a) Anxiety neuroses.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
(d) Transference.

11. How does Freud view bisexuality?
(a) He believes it is hereditary.
(b) He doesn't care about bisexuality.
(c) He believes it is unrelated to genetics.
(d) He believes it is innate.

12. What does Freud say about children that are twelve years old in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) They understand gender differences.
(b) They begin to notice sexual desires.
(c) They grow out of their candy phase.
(d) Most lose their desire to marry their parents.

13. What is periodic depression?
(a) A specific type of anxiety neurosis.
(b) Depression in women that occurs during their cycle.
(c) It is similar to episodic depression.
(d) Depression that comes and goes.

14. At the end of the chapter, "The Theory of Sexuality," what does Freud want to accomplish?
(a) For the reader to tell someone else about his book.
(b) For people to be aware of mental illness.
(c) The reader to know these are all hypotheses.
(d) The reader to have a better understanding of Freudian psychology.

15. What does Freud find as the link of most neuroses?
(a) Childhood experiences.
(b) Sexual related experiences.
(c) Genetics of parents.
(d) Childhood behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud want to constantly be reminded of throughout his book?

2. Who does Freud criticize in the beginning of "Therapy and Technique"?

3. What will therapists insist upon in a situation like 'Dora'?

4. According to Freud, how does he term the patient's experience with the grown man?

5. Who did the translations of Freud's work from German to English?

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