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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the uncanny?
(a) The frightening to the person.
(b) The unfamiliar to a person.
(c) The happy thoughts in a person.
(d) A hoax.

2. How was Da Vinci described?
(a) Happy and imperfect.
(b) Stable and happy.
(c) Unstable and melancholy.
(d) Imperfect and unhappy.

3. What is the difference between night and day dreams, according to Freud?
(a) Night dreams are more acceptable than day dreams.
(b) Night dreams are supreme to daydreams.
(c) Daydreams are irrelevant.
(d) Daydreams are more acceptable than night dreams.

4. What body part appears repeatedly in Da Vinci's art?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Teeth.
(c) Ears.
(d) Lips.

5. What is sexual sublimation?
(a) Desires seen in random and odd objects.
(b) Channeling strong sexual energy into the artistic output.
(c) Repressed sexual desires.
(d) Hidden sexual desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ego have during day and night dreams?

2. When can a person seem uncanny?

3. What does the first essay of "The Uncanny" discuss?

4. What do most adult memories have, according to Freud?

5. What does Freud find most heroes in fiction really are?

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