Q 01/05

Money from which Hollywood star's estate reached Anna Freud's clinic through the star's New York analyst?

A) Marilyn Monroe

B) Judy Garland

C) Elizabeth Taylor

D) Rita Hayworth

Answer · why

A) Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe left money to her New York analyst, Marianne Kris, to pass to a charity of Kris's choosing. Kris picked the children's clinic Anna Freu...

Q 02/05

Which piece of consulting-room furniture did Anna Freud hardly ever use when she treated children?

A) The desk

B) The couch

C) The armchair

D) The bookcase

Answer · why

B) The couch

The couch stayed empty because children cannot lie still and free-associate for long. Anna Freud let them roam the room, and if a child romped on the ...

Q 03/05

Who took the 22-year-old Anna Freud into psychoanalysis as a patient in October 1918?

A) Her family doctor

B) Her elder brother

C) Her own father

D) Her godfather

Answer · why

C) Her own father

Her own father analysed her, in two stretches between 1918 and 1929. Sigmund Freud then used material from those sessions in one of his own papers.

Q 04/05

Anna Freud's dog Wolf, which first turned Sigmund Freud into a dog lover in the 1920s, was which breed?

A) Chow Chow

B) Airedale Terrier

C) Saint Bernard

D) German Shepherd

Answer · why

D) German Shepherd

German Shepherd Wolf was meant as Anna's companion, but Sigmund grew so attached that she joked his affections had moved from her to the dog. He later...

Q 05/05

Which Nazi organisation took Anna Freud to its Vienna headquarters for questioning in March 1938?

A) The Gestapo

B) The Waffen-SS

C) The Abwehr

D) The Brownshirts

Answer · why

A) The Gestapo

The Gestapo questioned her about the International Psychoanalytical Association, then let her go home. Her arrest finally convinced Sigmund Freud that...