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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 does Breuer normally do later on Friday evenings?
(a) Cleans the kitchen.
(b) Retires to his study.
(c) Sips brandy in bed.
(d) Puts wood in the fireplace.

2. At the start of their second session, what subject does Nietzsche want to avoid with Breuer?
(a) Money.
(b) Mathilde.
(c) Breuer's lust.
(d) Suicide.

3. What plan does Breuer propose to Nietzsche on the Monday morning following Nietzsche's illness?
(a) For both men to undergo the same treatment.
(b) For the men to treat each other.
(c) For the men to part ways.
(d) For Nietzsche to record his events for his next book.

4. Who is buried in the cemetery Nietzsche and Breuer walk around?
(a) Both of the men's grandmothers.
(b) Breuer's mother, father, and brother.
(c) Nietzsche's parents.
(d) Breuer's first wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Nietzsche arrives to hear the answers for his three questions, what does Breuer reveal as the best course of treatment?

3. As Nietzsche and Breuer walk through the cemetery, they start to think the Bertha-obsession is rooted in___________.

4. How does Dr. Breuer want Nietzsche to treat him while Nietzsche is hospitalized?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nietzsche react about Breuer's answers to his three questions?

2. How does Nietzsche behave after he becomes lucid? Why?

3. How does Breuer behave in getting Nietzsche to agree to treatment?

4. Why has Breuer decided on a new plan to propose to Nietzsche?

5. What kind of relationship does Breuer have with Max as opposed to Mathilde?

6. How does Breuer begin treating Nietzsche once Nietzsche won't go to treatment?

7. Why would Breuer begin the consultations with the same approach that he has previously used?

8. Why might Nietzsche's migraines have subsided now that he is in the hospital?

9. What is Breuer's motive in sharing his dream with Nietzsche?

10. What prevents Breuer from getting Nietzsche to agree to treatment?

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