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

2. What does Max suggest Breuer do with Nietzsche?
(a) Learn something from Nietzsche.
(b) Put Freud in charge of Nietzsche's case.
(c) Allow Nietzsche to lead his own therapy.
(d) Take Nietzsche to the park.

3. What tradition does the Breuer family hold with Mathilde's sister and their families?
(a) Christmas caroling.
(b) Birthday celebrations.
(c) Thanksgiving breakfast.
(d) Friday evening supper.

4. As Breuer tells Nietzsche during their second session, why is Breuer unhappy in his marriage?
(a) The marriage was not his choice.
(b) He married too young.
(c) Mathilde is cruel to him.
(d) They are in debt.

5. What does Breuer find as he searches the guest house while Nietzsche is ill?
(a) Empty alcohol bottles.
(b) A nearly empty bottle of chloral.
(c) Syringes.
(d) Drug vials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Breuer try to slip into the discussion during Nietzsche's first session with him?

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

3. What does Josef think Mathilde is really accusing him of on the morning after Nietzsche reads a letter from Elisabeth?

4. Who is buried in the cemetery Nietzsche and Breuer walk around?

5. What does Breuer ask of Max the Friday after Nietzsche leaves him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the letter to Peter Gast reveal?

2. What makes Breuer even more desperate to help Nietzsche after he saves his life?

3. How does Nietzsche feel about Breuer as they continue to discuss treatment options?

4. What is the importance of the setting for Josef and Mathilde's argument?

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

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

7. Why does Nietzsche agree to Breuer's new treatment plan?

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

9. How does Nietzsche act out of character during his illness?

10. How does Breuer feel as Nietzsche leaves his office?

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