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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman who complained about the advice given by her therapist was NOT told to do which of the following?
(a) Masturbate.
(b) Take another lover.
(c) Go back to her husband.
(d) Become a nun.

2. What does Freud include about one's sexual preference?
(a) How to prevent inversion.
(b) The meaning of one's adolescent love is a forerunner of their future sexual preference.
(c) How to prevent pregnancy.
(d) How to decipher one's sexual desire.

3. 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 is hysterical.
(d) She feels abused and used.

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

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

6. 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) True homosexuality.
(d) Predominant heterosexuals will typically manifest some homosexual leanings.

7. In the chapter "Dreams," how are therapeutic symptoms achieved?
(a) By looking for their physical significance.
(b) By talking and listening to what is being said.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Hypnosis.

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

9. What does Freud want to constantly be reminded of throughout his book?
(a) The mind and body forever change, so nothing is permanent.
(b) He tested and proved everything he declares.
(c) These are all hypotheses.
(d) Hysterical and neurotic symptoms can be cured.

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

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

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

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

14. What happens in the pre-pubescent period of child development?
(a) The child forgets his love for a relative.
(b) A child questions sexuality consciously.
(c) A child develops a sexual preference.
(d) A child develops a sexual drive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristics make the "talking" or "listening" cure method most effective?

2. What does the editor explain about Freud in the Introduction?

3. Who does Freud criticize in the beginning of "Therapy and Technique"?

4. What specific knowledge troubles 'Dora' ?

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

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