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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Da Vinci's most unfinished painting titled?
(a) The Moaning Lisa.
(b) The Mother Lisa.
(c) The Mona Lisa.
(d) The Missing Lisa.

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

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

4. Who is Mut?
(a) The Egyptian Goddess.
(b) The Italian Goddess.
(c) The American Goddess.
(d) The French Goddess.

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

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

7. What happens in the second stage of a child's developmental process, according to Freud?
(a) The child may begin to hate his or her parents.
(b) The child loves no one.
(c) The child may fantasize that he or she was adopted.
(d) The child begins to question his or her parents.

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

9. Which family relationship does Freud focus on in "Family Romances"?
(a) Siblings and their parents.
(b) Children and cousins.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Children and parents.

10. How does the son perceive his father after learning about his parent's sexual roles?
(a) He raises his father to a higher level.
(b) He lowers his mother to a lower level.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He raises his mother to a higher level.

11. 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 psychology of great persons.
(d) The motivation of great persons.

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

13. What did Da Vinci never take interest in?
(a) Religion.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Women.
(d) Canvas.

14. What does the image a child had of his or her parents turn into during his or her adult life?
(a) The basis of their nightmares.
(b) The basis of their dreams.
(c) The basis of their desires.
(d) The basis of their unhappiness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was exiled from his family as a child?

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

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

5. What was Da Vinci's first love? `

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