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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 reconcilation.
(d) The lack of love.

3. How many parts is "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood" divided into?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

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

5. 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 mother.
(d) His father.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does a tail symbolize in many cultures, like Italian?
(a) A male's thoughts.
(b) A male's control.
(c) A male's desire.
(d) A male penis.

12. What does the first part of "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood" discuss?
(a) The artist's eye.
(b) What the artist can do for the public.
(c) Why psychoanalysts should be interested in great thinkers like Da Vinci.
(d) Why he will analyze Da Vinci.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Da Vinci only halfheartedly accepted by?

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

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

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

5. What happens in the second stage of a child's developmental process, according to Freud?

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