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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the editor explain about Freud in the Introduction?
(a) That he is homosexual.
(b) That he was an orphan.
(c) That he is from Austria and is Jewish.
(d) That he has the psychology of being an outsider.

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

3. What did Freud's mentor decipher?
(a) Hysterical and neurotic symptoms in men and women.
(b) The reasons people are neurotic.
(c) Dora's illness.
(d) How to diagnose a severe case of multiple personalities.

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

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

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

7. What does Freud say is needed to understand human sexuality in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Scientific research.
(b) Knowledge of how sex works prevents pregnancies.
(c) One must have sex.
(d) Separate aberrations from healthy sexuality.

8. 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.

9. According to Freud, what does he suggest the heterosexual norm of parents typically lead to?
(a) Specific dynamic for their sexual drive to be manifested.
(b) Their children to be heterosexual.
(c) Specific dynamics towards opposite sex children than those for the same sex children of the same parents.
(d) For their children to gravitate towards people with same number in their families.

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

11. What is the term for when a child has adoration for his or her parent that is adopted in another member of the opposite sex?
(a) Infantile sexuality.
(b) Role reversal.
(c) Separation.
(d) Bisexuality.

12. How long does Dora's analysis last?
(a) Eleven weeks.
(b) Five days.
(c) Two years.
(d) Twelve months.

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

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

15. What is the remainder of Freud's research in?
(a) Drug addiction.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud refer to as an 'incurable ailment'?

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

3. What does the Final Paper focus on in the Chapter "Character and Anal Eroticism"?

4. What does Freud say about repressed material in relation to the patient?

5. What does Freud find as the cause of most neuroses?

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