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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What system of Freud's is dominated by the "talking" or "listening" cure?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Hysteria.
(c) Psycho-analysis.
(d) OCD.

2. Who does Freud criticize in the beginning of "Therapy and Technique"?
(a) Charcot.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Himself.
(d) Others errors made in this practice.

3. What type of change do sexual instincts undergo during this period of psychoanalysis?
(a) One is cured.
(b) The patient cannot change his or her mind about receiving treatment.
(c) Denial and anger.
(d) Radical transformation when the ego shifts from pleasure to reality principle.

4. What became an international organization prior to Freud's death?
(a) The Society of Mental Illness.
(b) The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
(c) The Venice Psychoanalytic Group.
(d) The Society of Psychoanalysis.

5. What does each section pertain to in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) Infantile masturbation.
(d) Adolescent masturbation.

6. According to Freud, how does he term the patient's experience with the grown man?
(a) A hysterical experience.
(b) A moment of anxiety.
(c) A sexual trauma.
(d) Psychoanalysis.

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

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

9. What characteristics does Freud's mentor have?
(a) He has an instinct for diagnosis.
(b) He is attentive and a good listener.
(c) He is soft spoken and easy to get along with.
(d) He is handsome.

10. What does the editor say about the patient's healing in "The Making of Psychoanalysis"?
(a) It shows the temporariness of mental illness.
(b) It shows she never was sick to begin with.
(c) It shows you have to fight for it.
(d) It shows that physical and mental illness are separate.

11. 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.

12. Who is mentioned as one of Freud's intellectual mentors?
(a) Anna O.
(b) Charcat.
(c) Dora.
(d) Charcot.

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

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

15. What term does Freud give that describes people who confuse their fantasies for facts?
(a) Reality principle.
(b) Hallucination principle.
(c) Sexual principle.
(d) Pleasure principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic for what Freud terms the 'anal character'?

2. What does Freud hate?

3. What is periodic depression?

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

5. What two feelings does Freud mention helps the therapy process?

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