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

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

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

5. What does Freud find as the link of most neuroses?
(a) Childhood experiences.
(b) Childhood behavior.
(c) Sexual related experiences.
(d) Genetics of parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud include about one's sexual preference?

2. What is one of the terms introduced that is one or a bundle of behavioral symptoms that shows something is 'wrong'?

3. What does Freud NOT include to determine what is normal sexual behavior in "The Theory of Sexuality"?

4. What does Freud's term "wild" mean?

5. What does Freud comment on at the end of "The Final Paper"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud describe Charcot?

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

3. What does Freud say neuroses are linked to?

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

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

6. What does Freud suggest about children under five years old?

7. What symptoms did 'Dora' have after experiencing a sexual trauma?

8. What happens to Rat Man, the patient who has obsessional neurosis?

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

10. What are the three sexual preferences Freud discusses in great length and briefly describe them.

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