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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. Lou gives Josef many letters from Nietzsche which reveal _____________.
(a) His childhood abuse.
(b) His terrible body images.
(c) His headaches.
(d) His suicidal tendencies.

2. How should Josef react about Lou during treatment with Nietzsche, according to Lou?
(a) Not to align himself with her.
(b) To pretend he's never heard her name.
(c) To side with her.
(d) Not to mention the "unholy Trinity."

3. When Nietzsche first arrives at Breuer's office, what do the two men discuss first?
(a) Breuer's friendship with Freud.
(b) Breuer's credentials and publications.
(c) Nietzsche's love life.
(d) Nietzsche's previous treatments and physicians.

4. Where do Josef and Lou have their second meeting?
(a) The hospital.
(b) A pastry shop.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Josef's office.

5. What does Breuer believe physicians should offer to patients?
(a) Shock treatment.
(b) Truth.
(c) Hope.
(d) Recommendations to other doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since Breuer feels confident during the first consultation, he prepares to _______________.

2. What is Breuer surprised about concerning Nietzsche's illness?

3. Lou gives Josef a letter from Nietzsche; what does Nietzsche's letter to Lou reveal?

4. What does Nietzsche believe is a physician's duty toward a patient?

5. What does Mathilde direct Freud to do when he arrives at her home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Freud help in Nietzsche's diagnosis and treatment?

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

4. How does Breuer's relationship with Bertha immediately bring a conflict to the story?

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

6. Why would the author leave Chapter 5 with Nietzsche ready to ask Breuer three questions?

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

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

9. What is Freud's relationship with Josef's family?

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

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