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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will therapists insist upon in a situation like 'Dora'?
(a) Stop treatment.
(b) Treatment of the whole family.
(c) To go to the hospital.
(d) An alternative way of treatment.

2. Who did the translations of Freud's work from German to English?
(a) W. W. Norton and Company Inc.
(b) Freud.
(c) Peter Gay.
(d) It is unclear who translated the text.

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

4. What is Dora in the chapter "Dreams"?
(a) The title of this section of the book.
(b) The reasoning behind hysterics.
(c) Fragment of and Analysis of a Case of Hysteria.
(d) A theory created by Freud.

5. What is a specific difficulty of Freud's research?
(a) The interference of his drug use.
(b) He was blind.
(c) The illnesses of 'Dora'.
(d) The intangibility of the subject matter.

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

7. What does Freud find causes symptoms of mental illness to subside?
(a) Telling the patient how to fix their problem.
(b) Allowing the patient and doctor to have a casual relationship.
(c) Letting the patient hit something.
(d) Listening attentively and compassionately.

8. What does Freud say about anyone who intends to give therapy?
(a) That they should have similar experiences.
(b) That they shouldn't have a mental disruption.
(c) That they should take therapeutic advice.
(d) That they should take medication.

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

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

11. What does Freud NOT include to determine what is normal sexual behavior in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Bisexuality.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Incest.
(d) Heterosexuality.

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

13. What term does Freud use as an alternate to homosexual?
(a) Backward.
(b) Inversion.
(c) Transposition.
(d) Reversal.

14. When was the classic of psycho-analysis published?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1909.

15. What affects the way dream ideas are interpreted?
(a) The amount of time we sleep.
(b) The goals of understanding the dream.
(c) What REM cycle we are in when analyzing.
(d) Our daily schedule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason is given for using the name Dora?

2. What drug does Freud research?

3. What is the result of Freud's patient's experience in the chapter "Dreams"?

4. What happens in the pre-pubescent period of child development?

5. What symptoms does Freud's patient have after the experience in "Dreams"?

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