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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 the ego have during day and night dreams?
(a) Total control.
(b) Conscious insight.
(c) Free reign.
(d) Subconscious insight.

2. What does Freud call the process of one generation superseding another?
(a) Desire to overdo.
(b) Surpassion.
(c) The growth of civilization.
(d) Desire to be better.

3. What does Freud argue happens to the child in the first stage of the developmental process?
(a) The child loves everyone.
(b) The child feels that others are taking his or her parents away from them.
(c) The child begins to grow territorial.
(d) The child questions everything.

4. What does the mind begin to creatively build as a person grows older?
(a) Castles in the sand.
(b) Bulidings.
(c) Bridges.
(d) Castles in their mind.

5. What is the subject of Freud's last essay?
(a) The unfamiliar.
(b) The uncanny.
(c) The scary.
(d) The canny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the person in Henri's dream run to?

2. What was the boy's childhood fear of sand transferred to?

3. What does Freud associate Da Vinci's view of his father to?

4. What did Da Vinci desire that was a common desire in many dreamers?

5. When did the boy believe the sandman would come throw sand in his eyes?

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