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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud comment on at the end of "The Final Paper"?
(a) He wants to do more studies on this topic.
(b) He needs better equipment to prove this study.
(c) He hopes it will end all discussion on this topic.
(d) He hopes its a beginning not an end to this topic.

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

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

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

5. What specific knowledge troubles 'Dora' ?
(a) That her mother is homosexual.
(b) Her mother's extramarital affairs.
(c) Seeing her mother die.
(d) Her father's extramarital affairs.

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

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

8. What is the result of Freud's patient's experience in the chapter "Dreams"?
(a) She is happy.
(b) She wants to see her mother.
(c) She feels abused and used.
(d) She is hysterical.

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

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

11. According to Freud, around what does the study of psychoanalysis revolve?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Trusting one's therapist.
(c) Replacement of pleasure principle by reality.
(d) The desire to want to get better.

12. What drug does Freud research?
(a) Extasy.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) LSD.

13. What is addressed in "The Making of Psychoanalysis"?
(a) The analysis and use of hypnosis.
(b) Freud's method of research.
(c) Freud's relationship to his mother.
(d) The treatment of hysteria.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the norm for translated texts?

2. What does the "Inversion, absolute, amphigenic and contingent" section address?

3. According to Freud, what does a patient need to do during therapy?

4. What does Freud say is a type of mental pathology?

5. What does Freud not address concerning heredity and sexuality in "The Theory of Sexuality"?

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