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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 missing element of one's life.
(c) A lack of love and companionship.
(d) A desire for parental love.

8. What does Freud suggest the psychoanalyst typically does to the person he or she is analyzing?
(a) Praise them.
(b) Ignore their accomplishments.
(c) Critique them.
(d) Bring the great person down to their level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What did Da Vinci avoid eating?
(a) Rice.
(b) Lettuce.
(c) Animals.
(d) Bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud focus on in the essay "Family Romances"?

2. How was Da Vinci described?

3. How does the child view his parents, according to Freud?

4. How did Da Vinci perceive romantic love?

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

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