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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Dora in the chapter "Dreams"?
(a) The title of this section of the book.
(b) Fragment of and Analysis of a Case of Hysteria.
(c) A theory created by Freud.
(d) The reasoning behind hysterics.

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

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

5. What term is also defined by one or more symptoms in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Hysteria.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Neuroses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Freud give that describes people who confuse their fantasies for facts?

2. What does Freud say about children that are twelve years old in "The Theory of Sexuality"?

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

4. What does the "Deviations in respect of the sexual object" section address?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud repeatedly write that he believes is innate in all of us?

2. What is specifically difficult about the subject of psychology?

3. What happens in the pre-pubescent latency period?

4. What does Freud suggest is important for the patient to do in therapy?

5. Explain what was paradoxical about Freud's attitude toward philosophy.

6. What are some of the conditions to having an effective psycho-analysis?

7. What was Charcot able to decipher in both men and women?

8. What do the brief expositions at the beginning of "The Theory of Sexuality" address?

9. What two feelings greatly support the therapy process dealing with transference?

10. What does Freud say neuroses are linked to?

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