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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood.

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) His desire for freedom.
(c) That he is incestual.
(d) His sexual excitement.

2. How did Da Vinci perceive romantic love?
(a) With hope.
(b) With regret.
(c) With disgust.
(d) Too idealized.

3. What does Freud argue the appearance of an emperor or empress means in one's dream?
(a) Their desire for authority.
(b) A representatio of the dreamer's parents.
(c) Their need for order and rule.
(d) Nothing.

4. What is the family romance fantasy an attempt of the subconscious to reconcile with?
(a) A lack of love and companionship.
(b) The idolization and love of the parents that comes with the unwelcome, ugly truth.
(c) A desire for parental love.
(d) A missing element of one's life.

5. What do children ultimately desire when they desire to become adults?
(a) Power.
(b) Full adult sexuality.
(c) Full control.
(d) Complete understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first essay of "The Uncanny"?

2. What does Freud call the third stage of a child's developmental process?

3. What must be disguised symbolically in the form of a dream?

4. According to Freud, what is the childhood psyche substantially different from?

5. How does the son perceive his father after learning about his parent's sexual roles?

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