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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is banal content and emotional resonance essential to?
(a) Screen memories.
(b) Screen images.
(c) Movie memories.
(d) Movie images.

2. What happens as a result from the daydream in the daydreamer's real life?
(a) A fear of never having one's dream become reality.
(b) A pleasure of living out possibilities.
(c) A pleasure of feeling fulfilled desires.
(d) A fear of never reaching one's dreams.

3. What is the title of the first essay of "The Uncanny"?
(a) "Childhood Influences."
(b) "Creative Thinkers."
(c) "Screen Memories."
(d) "Creative Writing and Daydreaming."

4. Where can the ego put the dreamer?
(a) In a happy place.
(b) In a foreign place.
(c) In many different situations.
(d) In a coma state.

5. What does Freud find most heroes in fiction really are?
(a) Desires.
(b) Fake.
(c) Fantastical people.
(d) Ego projections.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first force Freud mentions is at play in childhood memories?

2. At what age do dreams begin to take a narrative pattern?

3. How many forces does Freud argue are at play in the formation of early childhood memories?

4. Who are V. and C. Henri?

5. What is the second force Freud mentions is at play in childhood memories?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Leonardo da Vinci.

2. What happens to a child's perception of his or her parents as they grow up?

3. What happened to many of Da Vinci's works, like the Mona Lisa?

4. Discuss the prevalence of both the enigmatic smile and presence of babies in Da Vinci's work.

5. What does Freud see our dreams as?

6. According to Freud, discuss the projections of one's unconscious.

7. Describe Freud's student that has an adult fear of sand.

8. Discuss the roles of substitution and repression in regard to emotionally traumatic events.

9. What happens in Henri's childhood memory?

10. What role do repressed sexual desires have on the uncanny?

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