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

2. What does Freud discern is very unlikely Da Vinci ever did?
(a) Slept with a woman.
(b) Ate an animal.
(c) Read a book.
(d) Saw a movie.

3. What are men searching for when the admire women with long feet?
(a) The male's penis.
(b) The female penis.
(c) The male's privates.
(d) The female privates.

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

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

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

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

8. How was Da Vinci described?
(a) Unstable and melancholy.
(b) Stable and happy.
(c) Imperfect and unhappy.
(d) Happy and imperfect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What culture believes a vulture is a symbol of one's mother?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Italian.
(c) French.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Da Vinci's nickname that Freud agrees was an appropriate name for him?

2. How do children tend to think of the father, according to Freud?

3. What does a tail symbolize in many cultures, like Italian?

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

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

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