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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 are men searching for when the admire women with long feet?
(a) The male's penis.
(b) The female privates.
(c) The female penis.
(d) The male's privates.

2. How does the son perceive his father after learning about his parent's sexual roles?
(a) He lowers his mother to a lower level.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He raises his father to a higher level.
(d) He raises his mother to a higher level.

3. What does Freud argue the common man may be interested in in "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood"?
(a) The desires of great persons.
(b) That Da Vinci is the greatest.
(c) The motivation of great persons.
(d) The psychology of great persons.

4. What does the childhood period serve in a person's life, according to Freud?
(a) It is unimportant.
(b) The essential and formative period in the development of the adult psyche.
(c) The essential and formative period in the development of the adolescent psyche.
(d) It shapes us as adults.

5. How did Da Vinci differ from other artist's?
(a) He was never inspired.
(b) He made his work look genuine.
(c) He was better than they were.
(d) He seemed uninterested in promoting his work.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age do dreams begin to take a narrative pattern?

2. What does stealing the flowers represent in Henri's adolescent memory?

3. What was the time period Da Vinci lived in like, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud argue the appearance of an emperor or empress means in one's dream?

5. Where does the artist sublimate the actual pleasure of one's dreams into?

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