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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Breuer sees Nietzsche after his attack, how does Breuer believe he feels about helping Nietzsche?
(a) Eager.
(b) Irritated.
(c) Completed.
(d) Obsessed.

2. How does Nietzsche behave toward Breuer as Breuer gets his heart under control?
(a) Irritated.
(b) Grateful.
(c) Angry.
(d) Reserved.

3. What does Nietzsche plan to do when he returns to Breuer's office in two hours?
(a) Take his medical files.
(b) Pick up the prescription.
(c) Keep questioning Breuer's motives.
(d) Pay his bill and collect his books.

4. In Nietzsche's letter to Peter Gast, what does he write about concerning his hospital stay?
(a) He dreads doing it.
(b) He doesn't trust Breuer.
(c) He knows he needs medicine.
(d) He is excited about it.

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

6. How does Dr. Breuer want Nietzsche to treat him while Nietzsche is hospitalized?
(a) As a brother.
(b) As a colleague.
(c) As a friend.
(d) As an experiment.

7. At the start of their second session, what does Breuer want to do concerning Nietzsche's treatment?
(a) To get Nietzsche to travel.
(b) To encourage Nietzsche's writing.
(c) To make Nietzsche stop being so private.
(d) To help Nietzsche not worry about Lou.

8. What does Max suggest Breuer do with Nietzsche?
(a) Take Nietzsche to the park.
(b) Allow Nietzsche to lead his own therapy.
(c) Learn something from Nietzsche.
(d) Put Freud in charge of Nietzsche's case.

9. At the start of their second session, Nietzsche and Breuer agree to try to work __________________.
(a) Respectfully with each other.
(b) Amiably together.
(c) Apart from each other.
(d) Silently with each other.

10. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer tell him about his migraines?
(a) His migraines should become less severe as he ages.
(b) All writers get them.
(c) Mental problems lead to migraines.
(d) He can prescribe medicine for migraines.

11. What does Breuer try to slip into the discussion during Nietzsche's first session with him?
(a) Lou Salome.
(b) Nietzsche's suicide attempts.
(c) Nietzsche's mother's death.
(d) Nietzsche's philosophical beliefs.

12. As Nietzsche and Breuer walk through the cemetery, they start to doubt that the Bertha-obsession is rooted in ____________.
(a) Need.
(b) Love.
(c) Lust.
(d) Greed.

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

14. How does Breuer feel about the consultation with Nietzsche when Nietzsche refuses treatment?
(a) It was aggravating.
(b) He had control of it.
(c) It slipped through his hands.
(d) It was moving positively.

15. How does Breuer try to get Nietzsche to agree to his desired course of treatment?
(a) Breuer quotes Lou in his arguments.
(b) Breuer uses Nietzsche's books to support his ideas.
(c) Breuer applies argument after argument.
(d) Breuer insults Nietzsche's former doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Breuer find as he searches the guest house while Nietzsche is ill?

2. With whom does Breuer do his Friday ritual?

3. At the start of their second session, what subject does Nietzsche want to avoid with Breuer?

4. What does Josef think Mathilde is really accusing him of on the morning after Nietzsche reads a letter from Elisabeth?

5. The session after Lou storms out, what does Breuer share with Nietzsche to begin the session?

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