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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 Missing Lisa.
(b) The Moaning Lisa.
(c) The Mother Lisa.
(d) The Mona Lisa.

2. What stage takes on a sexual nature after the sexual differences of father and mother are recognized?
(a) The aesxual stage.
(b) The hidden desire stage.
(c) The informative stage.
(d) The null stage.

3. What does the child fantasize about in the third stage of the developmental process, according to Freud?
(a) Leaving his or her parents.
(b) Replacing his or her parents.
(c) Superseding his or her parents.
(d) Running away.

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

5. What does Freud argue happens to the child in the first stage of the developmental process?
(a) The child loves everyone.
(b) The child begins to grow territorial.
(c) The child questions everything.
(d) The child feels that others are taking his or her parents away from them.

6. What does the son believe if he has a sister?
(a) That his dad hurt his mother to have his sister.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That his mother had an extramarital affair.
(d) That his sister is not really his sister.

7. What leads to psychological disorders if not accomplished properly, according to Freud?
(a) The lack of connection to the conscious and unconscious.
(b) The lack of reconcilation.
(c) The lack of love.
(d) The lack of motivation.

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

9. 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 desires.
(c) The basis of their unhappiness.
(d) The basis of their dreams.

10. 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.

11. What text of literature does Freud mention in association to female and male familial fantasies?
(a) "The Bible."
(b) "Oedipus Rex."
(c) "Moby Dick."
(d) "Romeo and Juliet."

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

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

14. What animal opens up Da Vinci's mouth in his memory from when he was a baby?
(a) A crane.
(b) A rooster.
(c) A vulture.
(d) A pelican.

15. What does the process of growth of children in the family involve, according to Freud?
(a) The desire for the child to learn.
(b) The desire for the child to imitate his or her parents.
(c) The desire for the child to give.
(d) The desire for the child to supersede his or her parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud intend to do by looking at Da Vinci?

2. What was Da Vinci cool to the differences between?

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

4. What is the family romance fantasy an attempt of the subconscious to reconcile with?

5. How does the son perceive his father after learning about his parent's sexual roles?

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