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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the son begin to see his mother after learning about his parent's sexual roles?
(a) Asexually.
(b) As a goddess.
(c) As a form of Satan.
(d) Sexually.

5. How do children tend to think of their mother, according to Freud?
(a) That she is the sweetest.
(b) That she is the most beautiful and nicest.
(c) That she is evil.
(d) That she is the most fair.

6. What is a central theme in all of Freud's work?
(a) The conflict and relationships of the family.
(b) Suppressed desires.
(c) The ego and the id.
(d) Dreams.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Freud call the process of one generation superseding another?
(a) Desire to overdo.
(b) The growth of civilization.
(c) Desire to be better.
(d) Surpassion.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family relationship does Freud focus on in "Family Romances"?

2. What does Freud feel Da Vinci's bizarre childhood memory really is?

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

4. What does the child fantasize about in the third stage of the developmental process, according to Freud?

5. What image does a child try to retain?

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