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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Freud believe Da Vinci turned to, to better his art?
(a) Geography.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) History.

3. What does Freud call the third stage of a child's developmental process?
(a) Family neurtoics.
(b) Neurosis of the family.
(c) Family romance of the neurotics.
(d) Romance neurosis.

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

5. What does Freud feel Da Vinci's bizarre childhood memory really is?
(a) A projection.
(b) An uncanny.
(c) A hidden desire.
(d) A screen memory.

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

7. Who kills his father and marries his mother?
(a) Sophecles.
(b) Oedipus's mom.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Thebes.

8. What did Da Vinci desire that was a common desire in many dreamers?
(a) To die.
(b) To live forever.
(c) To swim.
(d) To fly.

9. How does the child view his parents, according to Freud?
(a) Like God.
(b) As the greatest people.
(c) Perfect.
(d) As the worst people.

10. What was the time period Da Vinci lived in like, according to Freud?
(a) Sensual.
(b) Erotic.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Sexual.

11. What images result when a child's attempts to retain the image of his or her parents?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The image is distorted.
(c) A real version of their parents takes place.
(d) A fantasy version of their parents takes place.

12. What is a child's perception of his or her parent's sexual role?
(a) They do not understand.
(b) They understand.
(c) They are ignorant to it.
(d) They are informed, but still do not understand.

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

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

15. What does Freud intend to do by looking at Da Vinci?
(a) Discern important facts about Italy.
(b) Disecern important facts about the Reniassance.
(c) Discern important facts about human psychology.
(d) Discern important facts about art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many parts is "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood" divided into?

3. What does the image a child had of his or her parents turn into during his or her adult life?

4. What happens to a child's perception of their parents as a child grows mentally?

5. What image does a child try to retain?

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