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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say about the majority of people's knowledge?
(a) It is innate.
(b) It is learned.
(c) It is dependent on one's surroundings.
(d) It is unconscious much of the time.

2. What other work was being done in the field of psychology at the same time as the "birth trauma"?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Female sexuality.
(c) Sleep apnea.
(d) Male sexuality.

3. How does Freud describe a celibate man's homosexuality?
(a) It is a life of unfulfilled.
(b) It's an action, not emotion.
(c) It's an emotional attitude and not overt behavior.
(d) It is more common that people realize.

4. What does Freud speculate about the people reading the section on totem pets, who have pets?
(a) They will be intrigued.
(b) They will want to adapt this way of thinking.
(c) They will be sad.
(d) They will be disappointed that the subject is not very exotic.

5. How does Freud describe psychoanalysis at the beginning of "Psychoanalysis in Culture"?
(a) Hard and in your face.
(b) Confronting and sometimes uncomfortable.
(c) Worthwhile.
(d) Soft, heavy and may appear worthless.

6. What happens to symptoms as their causes are laid bare?
(a) They take control.
(b) They are released.
(c) They are destroyed.
(d) They are envisioned.

7. What Biblical figure does Freud give a bizarre and ornate write-up of?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Moses.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Judah.

8. What does Freud deem as DaVinci's characteristic as a painter?
(a) Using only neutral colors.
(b) Using watercolors.
(c) One type of eye shape.
(d) One type of smile.

9. What does Freud say about Michelangelo's sexuality?
(a) He had an intellectual relationship with a woman.
(b) He and DaVinci were lovers.
(c) He was celibate.
(d) He was homosexual.

10. What does Freud call the term when two diverse psychic attributes drive behavior along different lines?
(a) Spiral of thoughts.
(b) Cycle of psyche.
(c) Different reasoning.
(d) Double mindedness of double consciousness.

11. How many pages is the paper on the subject of the unconscious?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

12. What does Freud overtly admit about women?
(a) The differences between women and men precludes an adequate psycho-analytic theory.
(b) That they are born with a different innate sexual desire.
(c) That most do not feel incestuous love.
(d) That he understands them better than men.

13. What does Freud claim about the Oedipal complex in relation to human development?
(a) It is of the subconscious.
(b) It is a myth.
(c) It creates aggression.
(d) It is truly vanquished.

14. According to Freud, when will a homosexual man tend to have homosexual behavior?
(a) Early in life.
(b) Later in life, after repressing their love for their mother.
(c) In college.
(d) When they realize they are not attracted to the opposite sex.

15. Who does Freud try to discern the truth about in "Psycho-Analysis in Culture, Leonardo DaVinci"?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Homosexual women.
(c) Homosexual men.
(d) Prostitutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first rule to the psychoanalytic theory?

2. How does Freud term thoughts and behaviors interconnected with the psyche?

3. What does Freud mention as one of the main causes of horror within the family?

4. What is the name of Freud's daughter who is mentioned?

5. What does Freud say is NOT a sign of a person's general inferiority?

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