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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Breuer believe is a physician's duty toward a patient?

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

3. What does Nietzsche do every time Breuer starts to discuss suicide?

4. During their second meeting, what picture does Lou show Josef?

5. How does Breuer view his examination of Nietzsche during their first meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What expectations does Breuer have concerning Nietzsche?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why would Nietzsche write books that he allows his publisher to hide?

8. Why would Freud and Josef use fake names when talking about people?

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

10. Why would Lou take such an interest in helping Nietzsche?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Breuer easily overcome by women and their attractiveness?

Essay Topic 2

What is the overall theme of this novel? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What is the effect, if any, of these 'real characters' being in a book of fiction?

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