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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mathilde direct Freud to do when he arrives at her home?
(a) Sleep in Josef's bed.
(b) Talk to the children.
(c) Eat cookies.
(d) Take a hot bath.

2. What does Josef receive from Lou Salome while on vacation?
(a) A book.
(b) A note.
(c) A poem.
(d) A phone call.

3. Nietzsche tells Breuer his diet consists of ___________.
(a) Meat and potatoes.
(b) Water and salads.
(c) Bland foods.
(d) Foreign foods.

4. What do Breuer and Nietzsche later discuss during their first meeting?
(a) Economics.
(b) Politics.
(c) History.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What does Breuer believe physicians should offer to patients?
(a) Truth.
(b) Recommendations to other doctors.
(c) Hope.
(d) Shock treatment.

6. What type of study does Freud prefer?
(a) Research.
(b) Obstestrics.
(c) Family practice.
(d) Podiatry.

7. What does Breuer believe is a physician's duty toward a patient?
(a) To try new treatments on them.
(b) To present all the information to them.
(c) To offer hope.
(d) To give information they can handle.

8. After Nietzsche and Breuer's initial meeting, why does Breuer become upset about Bertha?
(a) He feels ravaged by his obsession with Bertha.
(b) He thinks that Nietzsche will use the situation with Bertha against him.
(c) He wants Bertha to be happy with Nietzsche.
(d) He's worried about the bad news about Bertha.

9. Lou confides in Josef that she does not believe in what?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Dieting.
(d) Divorce.

10. After Breuer's first office visit with Lou Salome, whom does he travel to visit?
(a) Seven patients.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Bertha.
(d) Eva.

11. When Nietzsche first arrives at Breuer's office, what do the two men discuss first?
(a) Nietzsche's previous treatments and physicians.
(b) Nietzsche's love life.
(c) Breuer's friendship with Freud.
(d) Breuer's credentials and publications.

12. What does Breuer wonder about concerning Mathilde?
(a) Why they fight so much.
(b) Why she cheats on him.
(c) Why he is not happy with her.
(d) Why he won't divorce her.

13. What do Freud and Breuer discuss after Breuer spends some time reading Nietzsche's books?
(a) Nietzsche's health.
(b) Nietzsche's education.
(c) Nietzsche's love life.
(d) Nietzsche's previous physicians.

14. How does Breuer view Freud in relation to himself?
(a) Breuer thinks Freud is more religious than he.
(b) Breuer describes Freud as himself ten or eleven years ago.
(c) Breuer emphasizes that Freud has more skill and devotion than he.
(d) Breuer believes that Freud has more charisma than he.

15. How does Breuer describe Nietzsche the first time he sees him which he did not expect?
(a) As being thin and sickly.
(b) As being strong and muscular.
(c) As being gruff.
(d) As having a soft voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nietzsche's three questions all concern?

2. What does Mathilde confide to Freud concerning her marriage?

3. When Breuer reads Nietzsche's books, what does he find in the margins?

4. How does Josef feel concerning Freud's role in his marriage?

5. According to Nietzsche, what has frustrated him about other physicians?

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