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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. After Nietzsche asks his three questions, what do Nietzsche and Breuer debate?
(a) The physician's responsibility of truthfulness with their patients.
(b) The relationship between a doctor and the patient.
(c) Which treatment forms are ethical.
(d) The kind of information that can be released to the patient's family.

2. How does Josef feel concerning Freud's role in his marriage?
(a) Josef is jealous of Freud's counseling abilities.
(b) Josef worries Mathilde is falling in love with Freud.
(c) Josef thinks Freud gives poor advice.
(d) Josef feels bad that Freud is the confidant.

3. What kind of "voice" does Breuer think Nietzsche's books have?
(a) Confusing and misleading.
(b) Anything but soft.
(c) Nice but firm.
(d) Calm and soothing.

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

5. A week after Lou meets Breuer at his office, she sends him a note that states what?
(a) Their plan is working.
(b) To forget the ideas she gave him.
(c) To treat her differently than Nietzsche.
(d) Discussions with Freud are dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Nietzsche give Breuer for not reading?

2. How does Breuer describe Nietzsche the first time he sees him which he did not expect?

3. What topics do Nietzsche's philosophies cover?

4. After Nietzsche and Breuer's initial meeting, what kind of night does Breuer have at home?

5. Who is Frau Becker?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are Elisabeth's actions helping or hurting Nietzsche and why?

2. What is ironic about Freud's relationship with the Breuers?

3. What could Breuer's dream about Bertha mean?

4. What drives Lou to seek treatment for Nietzsche?

5. What is Lou's attitude about Nietzsche during her first meetings with Josef?

6. What contributes to Nietzsche being a difficult patient?

7. How does Breuer's patient list characterize him?

8. What is foreshadowed by Josef's admittance that he had an affair with a patient?

9. Why would Nietzsche be so open about his physical ailments but so reserved about his mental ones?

10. Why does Nietzsche allow Breuer to read his books?

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