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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do most adult memories have, according to Freud?
(a) A strong emotional power.
(b) A detrimental emotional power.
(c) A driving emotional power.
(d) A subtle emotional power.

2. What happens as a result from the daydream in the daydreamer's real life?
(a) A pleasure of living out possibilities.
(b) A pleasure of feeling fulfilled desires.
(c) A fear of never having one's dream become reality.
(d) A fear of never reaching one's dreams.

3. What is the condition of the memory once the two forces coexist in the case of a childhood memory?
(a) The memory is vague.
(b) The memory is distorted.
(c) The memory is clear.
(d) The memory is suppressed.

4. How does Freud end "Creative Writing and Daydreaming"?
(a) Honestly.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Abruptly.
(d) Emphatically.

5. What does Freud suggest about the memories we recall as adults about our childhood really are?
(a) They are distortions.
(b) They are not memories at all.
(c) They are projections.
(d) They are substitutions.

6. What can fantasies do for a healthy dreamer?
(a) Dream big.
(b) Reach one's dreams.
(c) Think through the possibilities of the future.
(d) Stay grounded.

7. What must childhood memories be triggered by, according to Freud?
(a) Emotional resonance.
(b) Emotional resistance.
(c) Emotional stability.
(d) Emotional instability.

8. What must be disguised symbolically in the form of a dream?
(a) The subconscious mind.
(b) The unconscious mind.
(c) The conscious mind.
(d) The ego's desires.

9. Who did Henri fall in love with in his adolescent memory?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His sister.
(c) His cousin.
(d) No one.

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

11. Who went up to the person in Henri's dream with Henri?
(a) His brother.
(b) The other girls.
(c) The other boys.
(d) His best friend.

12. What does play turn into for a person?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Unfulfilled desires.
(d) Fantasy.

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

14. What does Henri remember about what he was given in his early childhood dream?
(a) The honey was sweet.
(b) The bread was delicious.
(c) The water was cold.
(d) The milk was smoothe.

15. What is the second force Freud mentions is at play in childhood memories?
(a) The force to remember the event.
(b) The force to forget the event.
(c) The force to retell the event.
(d) The motive to ignore the event.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Freud argue the creative process begins for a person?

3. What does Freud suggest memory like episodes should be called?

4. What is banal content and emotional resonance essential to?

5. What is the first force Freud mentions is at play in childhood memories?

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