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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. What odd suggestion does Lou give to Josef concerning Nietzsche's treatment before she leaves their second meeting?
(a) Nietzsche should not know he is in treatment.
(b) Nietzsche should believe Lou disappeared.
(c) Nietzsche should begin working a new job.
(d) Nietzsche should meet daily with Josef.

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

3. Why did Nietzsche have to resign as a professor?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Illness.
(c) Refusal to publish.
(d) Lack of research.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lou describe Elisabeth to Josef?

2. Why is Josef Breuer in Venice?

3. What do Breuer and Nietzsche later discuss during their first meeting?

4. Why does Josef break off his conversation with Lou during their first meeting?

5. How does Nietzsche behave when discussing his illness, symptoms, and physical well being?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Nietzsche's exclamation "hope is the final evil" explain about him?

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

5. What can readers infer about the effort of so many people working to get Nietzsche into treatment?

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

7. Why might Lou include information about Elisabeth to Dr. Breuer?

8. What are Nietzsche's motives behind asking the three questions?

9. What expectations does Breuer have concerning Nietzsche?

10. How does Nietzsche's resignation at Basel indirectly characterize him?

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