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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What smacks baby Da Vinci on the lips in his childhood memory?
(a) The vulture's tail.
(b) The vulture's hand.
(c) The crane's tail.
(d) The rooster's tail.

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

4. What body part appears repeatedly in Da Vinci's art?
(a) Ears.
(b) Teeth.
(c) Lips.
(d) Fingers.

5. What does Freud focus on in the essay "Family Romances"?
(a) The love in family.
(b) The development of family.
(c) The development of basic romantic attachments.
(d) The relationships of family.

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

7. What is the word fly related to in many languages?
(a) The male sexual organ.
(b) Children.
(c) The female sexual organ.
(d) Sex.

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

9. What was Da Vinci's nickname that Freud agrees was an appropriate name for him?
(a) The Italian Lover.
(b) The Italian Dreamer.
(c) The Italian-Faust.
(d) The Italian Stallion.

10. How do children tend to think of the father, according to Freud?
(a) That he is the strongest of men.
(b) That he is a liar.
(c) That he is a warrior.
(d) That he is handsome.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Da Vinci's most notable piece of art?

2. What happens in the second stage of a child's developmental process, according to Freud?

3. What does God mean to Freud?

4. How does the son begin to see his mother after learning about his parent's sexual roles?

5. What does Freud discern is very unlikely Da Vinci ever did?

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