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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By Freud's research on the libido, what is he not excluding on the topic?
(a) The desire people have for human contact.
(b) Sexual activity or suggesting intercourse without love.
(c) Eternal love.
(d) A mother's love.

2. What play by Shakespeare was mentioned in "Psychoanalysis in Culture"?
(a) Othello.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

3. What does Freud say is the part of the session when many patients give the best information?
(a) Formal part.
(b) Subconscious.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Informal part.

4. What does Freud say psycho-analytic treatment begins with?
(a) A search to unveil the trouble beneath symptoms of a patient.
(b) The desire to get better.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) A good patient-therapist relationship.

5. What does Freud call the term when two diverse psychic attributes drive behavior along different lines?
(a) Spiral of thoughts.
(b) Cycle of psyche.
(c) Double mindedness of double consciousness.
(d) Different reasoning.

6. What does the editor explain the libido in terms of?
(a) One's sexual organs.
(b) The mind and heart.
(c) The ego and in relation to objects.
(d) Eroticism.

7. What does Freud say a doctor normally meets in the patient?
(a) Obsessions.
(b) Neurosis.
(c) Resistance.
(d) Compulsion.

8. What does Freud say about criminal's guilt in "The Dependent Relationships of the Ego and the Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex"?
(a) It is a conscious feeling.
(b) It is a learned feeling.
(c) It is often unconscious, but may be uncovered through therapy.
(d) It isn't guilt, but a feeling of shame.

9. Who does Freud try to discern the truth about in "Psycho-Analysis in Culture, Leonardo DaVinci"?
(a) Homosexual men.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Homosexual women.

10. How does Freud view homosexuality?
(a) Intrigued.
(b) Not negatively.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Negatively.

11. What year was this author's work, "Totemism and Exogamy" published?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1910.

12. What does Freud say is the foremost force to setting motion in therapy?
(a) The acceptance of having a problem.
(b) Letting go and letting God.
(c) The desire to be released from suffering.
(d) Making a therapy appointment.

13. According to Freud, what type of man is most likely to withhold information during therapy?
(a) Men with repressed homosexual material.
(b) A man who is a CEO.
(c) A divorced man.
(d) An actor.

14. What does this entire book cover?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) The entire scope of Freud's work.
(c) Birth trauma.
(d) Financial problems.

15. What does Freud say is NOT a sign of a person's general inferiority?
(a) Mental illness.
(b) Neurotic analysis.
(c) Neurosis.
(d) Transference.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about the majority of people's knowledge?

2. What does Freud rename the term 'subconscious'?

3. What does Freud say is cause for criminality to emerge?

4. What does Freud determine about the relationship of homosexual men to their mothers?

5. What is the first rule to the psychoanalytic theory?

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