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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud reiterate is the first rule of psycho-analysis?
(a) For the therapist to listen to the patient.
(b) To undergo hypnosis.
(c) To trust one's therapist.
(d) To speak freely.

2. How does the therapist of the nicknamed patient term his descriptions of childhood experiences?
(a) Hateful.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Obsessive in quality.
(d) Obsessive in quantity.

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

4. According to Freud, what type of discernible relationship is typically found in what he calls the 'anal character'?
(a) The peace of mind to that of daily stress.
(b) One with a particular part of the body and its sensitivity.
(c) A symbiotic relationship of physical and mental well being.
(d) Insomnia to depression.

5. What two feelings does Freud mention helps the therapy process?
(a) Love and hope.
(b) Love and security.
(c) Acceptance and love.
(d) Hope and acceptance.

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

7. Who is the first official patient of psychotherapy?
(a) John Kerry.
(b) Dora.
(c) Charcot.
(d) Anna O.

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

9. What does the Final Paper focus on in the Chapter "Character and Anal Eroticism"?
(a) "Wild" Psycho-Analysis.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Transformation.
(d) The Two Principles of Mental Functioning

10. What is the patient nicknamed in "Obsessional Neuroses"?
(a) Rat King.
(b) Mouse trap.
(c) Man King.
(d) Rat Man.

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

12. Which of the following does Freud NOT mention therapists should assure their patients will not impede in therapy?
(a) Fear.
(b) Suspiciousness.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Sex.

13. What does Freud find as the cause of most neuroses?
(a) Misconception of facts.
(b) Fears of the unknown.
(c) Fears caused by actual events.
(d) Experiencing a death.

14. What does the "Inversion, absolute, amphigenic and contingent" section address?
(a) True homosexuality.
(b) Mixed gender sexuality preference.
(c) Absolute sexuality with no deviations of sexual preference.
(d) Predominant heterosexuals will typically manifest some homosexual leanings.

15. What is one of the terms introduced that is one or a bundle of behavioral symptoms that shows something is 'wrong'?
(a) Hysteria.
(b) Neuroses.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dora in the chapter "Dreams"?

2. What term does Freud use as an alternate to homosexual?

3. Who is the editor of The Freud Reader?

4. What happens to the patient that makes her sick in "The Making of Psychoanalysis"?

5. What is another term used for periodic depression?

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