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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Breuer feel about Mathilde's meddling in his professional life a few months ago?
(a) He wishes she wasn't so mean.
(b) He thinks she was unfair.
(c) He thinks she was bored.
(d) He now realizes she was right.

2. What does Nietzsche do in Breuer's office on the Monday morning following his illness?
(a) Starts a fist fight with his doctor.
(b) Settles his account.
(c) Demands payment for his books.
(d) Encourages Breuer to forget Bertha.

3. What is Nietzsche's second corrective behavior technique every time Breuer thinks of Bertha?
(a) Breuer is to slap his thigh.
(b) Breuer is to pull his hair.
(c) Breuer is to put a pebble in his shoe and walk around with it all day when he thinks of Bertha.
(d) Breuer is to read a passage from the Hebrew Bible.

4. What does Nietzsche accuse Breuer of being after Nietzsche refuses the treatment plan Breuer designed for him?
(a) He is prideful and arrogant.
(b) He is cruel and unkind.
(c) He is wrong and stubborn.
(d) He is unknowledgeable and pushy.

5. On his way home, Breuer meets Freud at the pastry shop and explains what situation to Freud?
(a) How he and Nietzsche will be treating each other.
(b) What Mathilde's latest antics are.
(c) Why he is leaving his job.
(d) When he is going to visit Bertha.

6. How did Mathilde meddle in Breuer's professional life several months ago?
(a) She made him change office buildings.
(b) She interrupted his counseling sessions.
(c) She insisted he fire Eva Berger.
(d) She attended his staff meetings when Eva was present.

7. How did Breuer choose his life goals?
(a) His parents gave him goals.
(b) He never made a conscious choice about them.
(c) He researched all possibilities.
(d) He made lists to organize ideas.

8. Why is Breuer agitated the Friday night after Nietzsche leaves him?
(a) Nietzsche hurt his feelings.
(b) Breuer did not get what he wanted.
(c) Nietzsche won't pay him money.
(d) Breuer wasted time on Nietzsche.

9. On the Monday morning following his illness, when does Nietzsche plan to see Breuer again?
(a) Later that night.
(b) Never.
(c) When he is ill again.
(d) In a month.

10. As Breuer tells Nietzsche during their second session, why is Breuer unhappy in his marriage?
(a) They are in debt.
(b) The marriage was not his choice.
(c) He married too young.
(d) Mathilde is cruel to him.

11. Where did Max and Breuer first meet?
(a) In elementary school.
(b) At a wedding.
(c) In medical school.
(d) At church.

12. What does Nietzsche believe about Breuer's motivation to help him?
(a) Breuer only wants fame from treating Nietzsche.
(b) There is something dishonest about Breuer's motivation.
(c) There is too much excitement from Breuer.
(d) Breuer only wants Nietzsche's money.

13. After he is better, where does Nietzsche want to go?
(a) Rome.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) His parents' house.
(d) Basel.

14. How does Breuer find Nietzsche at the guest house?
(a) In a near comatose state.
(b) Sleeping and drooling.
(c) Agitated and thrashing.
(d) In a drunken stupor.

15. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer tell him about brain disease?
(a) The chances are likely he will devlop brain disease.
(b) There is no evidence that he has a progressive brain disease.
(c) Little research is done on brain disease.
(d) His family history suggests brain disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nietzsche want to do for Breuer during their sessions?

2. The morning after Nietzsche reads a letter from Elisabeth, what do Josef and Mathilde argue about?

3. After Lou storms out and the session continues, how do both men feel?

4. What does Nietzsche plan to do when he returns to Breuer's office in two hours?

5. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer tell him about blindness?

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