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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image does a child try to retain?
(a) The happy childhood he or she had.
(b) The happy memories of his or her parents.
(c) The good image of his parents.
(d) The bad image of his parents.

2. What happens to prevent the reconciliation of the subconscious?
(a) A mark of resentment.
(b) A mark of disdain.
(c) A mark of disbelief.
(d) A mark of a neurotic.

3. What does Freud reason is really Da Vinci's memory?
(a) A fantasy of being fed.
(b) A fantasy of sucking on his mother's nippples.
(c) A fantasy of being loved.
(d) A fantasy of being hurt.

4. How many parts is "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood" divided into?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. Who did Da Vinci have a strong identification with, like most homosexuals according to Freud?
(a) His father.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His best girl friend.

6. What does a tail symbolize in many cultures, like Italian?
(a) A male's thoughts.
(b) A male penis.
(c) A male's control.
(d) A male's desire.

7. Who was Da Vinci only halfheartedly accepted by?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His wife.

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

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

10. What does Freud suggest the psychoanalyst typically does to the person he or she is analyzing?
(a) Ignore their accomplishments.
(b) Critique them.
(c) Praise them.
(d) Bring the great person down to their level.

11. What did ancient cultures see the male phallus as?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Good.
(c) The fount of all life.
(d) Evil.

12. What was Da Vinci cool to the differences between?
(a) Holy and cursed.
(b) Dark and light.
(c) Night and day.
(d) Good and evil.

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

14. Who was exiled from his family as a child?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Sophecles.
(d) Oedipus's mom.

15. What was Da Vinci's first love? `
(a) Religion.
(b) Science.
(c) Art.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Da Vinci's most unfinished painting titled?

2. What stage takes on a sexual nature after the sexual differences of father and mother are recognized?

3. How do children tend to think of their mother, according to Freud?

4. What text of literature does Freud mention in association to female and male familial fantasies?

5. What did Da Vinci never take interest in?

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