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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Nietzsche's last argument against the suggested course of treatment?
(a) He cannot afford it.
(b) He will not have his books with him.
(c) He has a deadline.
(d) He is scared.

4. What does the person who pounds on Breuer's door tell him?
(a) Breuer has a wounded pet outside.
(b) Breuer has an ill patient whom he needs to see.
(c) Breuer owes a man money.
(d) Breuer needs to leave Bertha alone.

5. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer reveal as the best course of treatment?
(a) Diet and exercise program.
(b) Physical therapy.
(c) Exercise program.
(d) Hospitalization.

6. According to Nietzsche, why has he agreed to meet with Breuer?
(a) His friends strongly recommended Breuer.
(b) He needed another prescription from a different doctor.
(c) He knew he needed help.
(d) He worried his other physicians were against him.

7. After Lou storms out, what does Breuer try to get Nietzsche to open up about during the session?
(a) The loss of his job.
(b) Lou Salome.
(c) His financial problems.
(d) His academic struggles.

8. What does Breuer think he is missing in his life that leads him to obsess over Bertha?
(a) Trust.
(b) Love.
(c) His children's adoration.
(d) A look from his wife.

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

10. As Breuer dismisses Nietzsche's final argument against treatment, what does Breuer ask him?
(a) If he is ready to sign paperwork.
(b) If he is ready to be admitted to the hospital.
(c) If he can do bloodwork soon.
(d) If he can begin taking diet pills.

11. At the pastry shop, how does Freud react to Breuer's feelings concerning Bertha?
(a) Freud is intrigued.
(b) Freud mocks Breuer.
(c) Freud ignores Bruer.
(d) Freud is fascinated.

12. What is Nietzsche's first reaction to Breuer's proposed plan?
(a) He is very opposed to the plan.
(b) He laughs at the plan.
(c) He is eager to begin the plan.
(d) He thinks he should ask Lou about the plan.

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

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

15. How does Max characterize Breuer's behavior in class?
(a) Breuer failed most tests.
(b) Breuer argued with classmates.
(c) Breuer challenged the professors.
(d) Breuer dutifully took notes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Breuer believes that both he and Nietzsche are suffering from _____________.

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

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

4. What does Breuer do for Nietzsche at the guest house?

5. In Nietzsche's letter to Peter Gast, how does he write about Lou Salome?

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