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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 is a type of mental pathology?
(a) Transference.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Anxiety neuroses.
(d) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

2. What does each section pertain to in "The Theory of Sexuality"?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Infantile masturbation.
(d) Adolescent masturbation.

3. What does Freud say about anyone who intends to give therapy?
(a) That they should take therapeutic advice.
(b) That they shouldn't have a mental disruption.
(c) That they should take medication.
(d) That they should have similar experiences.

4. At the end of the chapter, "The Theory of Sexuality," what does Freud want to accomplish?
(a) The reader to know these are all hypotheses.
(b) For the reader to tell someone else about his book.
(c) The reader to have a better understanding of Freudian psychology.
(d) For people to be aware of mental illness.

5. What did Freud's mentor decipher?
(a) Hysterical and neurotic symptoms in men and women.
(b) The reasons people are neurotic.
(c) How to diagnose a severe case of multiple personalities.
(d) Dora's illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the nicknamed patient repeatedly suffer from in "Character and Anal Eroticism"?

2. What characteristics does Freud's mentor have?

3. How is Freud being viewed by the culture in the chapter "The Theory of Sexuality"?

4. Who is mentioned as one of Freud's intellectual mentors?

5. What does Freud not address concerning heredity and sexuality in "The Theory of Sexuality"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly describe the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

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

5. In what language was Freud's original work written and how might this affect Freud's work?

6. Who was 'Dora'?

7. What does Freud's paper published in 1908 address?

8. How does Freud describe Charcot?

9. According to Freud, what does the norm of having heterosexual parents present?

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

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