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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 say about the vast majority's sexual preference?
(a) They like people with the same personality traits as the same sex parent.
(b) They are inclined towards members of the same sex.
(c) They are mostly inclined towards members of the opposite sex.
(d) They are generally inclined towards people who are like the parent of opposite sex.

2. What will therapists insist upon in a situation like 'Dora'?
(a) To go to the hospital.
(b) Stop treatment.
(c) Treatment of the whole family.
(d) An alternative way of treatment.

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

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

5. What does Freud not address concerning heredity and sexuality in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) That heterosexuality is innate.
(b) That homosexuality is hereditary.
(c) The theory that some are born homosexual as the same built-in heterosexual.
(d) That homosexuals choose to be so.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman who complained about the advice given by her therapist was NOT told to do which of the following?

2. What is the norm for translated texts?

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

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

5. What specific knowledge troubles 'Dora' ?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what Freud refers to as periodic depression.

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

4. What is happening to Anna O. that is making her sick?

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

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

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

8. What did the doctor's find was making 'Dora' verge on suicidal behavior?

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

10. What does Freud say about repressed material?

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