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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Uncanny.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does stealing the flowers represent in Henri's adolescent memory?
(a) His desire to deflower or seduce his cousin.
(b) That he is incestual.
(c) His sexual excitement.
(d) His desire for freedom.

2. Where can the ego put the dreamer?
(a) In a foreign place.
(b) In many different situations.
(c) In a coma state.
(d) In a happy place.

3. What does Freud suggest the psychoanalyst typically does to the person he or she is analyzing?
(a) Critique them.
(b) Bring the great person down to their level.
(c) Ignore their accomplishments.
(d) Praise them.

4. What does the uncanny evoke in a person?
(a) A desire to give up.
(b) The frightening of something unfamiliar.
(c) The frightening of something familiar.
(d) A desire to survive.

5. What form does an uncanny generally take, according to Freud?
(a) A stuffed animal form.
(b) A doll or robot form.
(c) It doesn't take a form.
(d) An abstract object's form.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Da Vinci only halfheartedly accepted by?

2. What does a daydream attempt to do for the dreamer?

3. How many forces does Freud argue are at play in the formation of early childhood memories?

4. How do children tend to think of the father, according to Freud?

5. What happens as a result from the daydream in the daydreamer's real life?

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