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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did ancient cultures see the male phallus as?
(a) Good.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sacred.
(d) The fount of all life.

4. 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 missing element of one's life.
(d) A desire for parental love.

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

6. What happens to a child's perception of their parents as a child grows mentally?
(a) They learn the ugly truth about their parents.
(b) They grow appreciative.
(c) They begin to detest and resent their parents.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

9. 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) That Da Vinci is the greatest.
(c) The motivation of great persons.
(d) The desires of great persons.

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

11. 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 motivation.
(c) The lack of love.
(d) The lack of reconcilation.

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

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

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

15. What is sexual sublimation?
(a) Desires seen in random and odd objects.
(b) Channeling strong sexual energy into the artistic output.
(c) Repressed sexual desires.
(d) Hidden sexual desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a central theme in all of Freud's work?

2. What smacks baby Da Vinci on the lips in his childhood memory?

3. What does Freud call the process of one generation superseding another?

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

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

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