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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. According to Freud, what do people often fantasize about before an event takes place?
(a) Who they will be.
(b) What they will look like.
(c) What they will do.
(d) Who they will be with.

2. What must be disguised symbolically in the form of a dream?
(a) The ego's desires.
(b) The conscious mind.
(c) The subconscious mind.
(d) The unconscious mind.

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

4. What does the ego have during day and night dreams?
(a) Conscious insight.
(b) Free reign.
(c) Subconscious insight.
(d) Total control.

5. What do most adult memories have, according to Freud?
(a) A strong emotional power.
(b) A subtle emotional power.
(c) A detrimental emotional power.
(d) A driving emotional power.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age are most early memories formed?

2. What must childhood memories be triggered by, according to Freud?

3. What can fantasies do for a healthy dreamer?

4. When does Freud argue the creative process begins for a person?

5. Where does the artist sublimate the actual pleasure of one's dreams into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the connection of Oedipus Rex to family romance.

2. What are most heroes in fiction classified as?

3. What is the first stage of growth like for a child, according to Freud?

4. What do the images in Henri's case reflect?

5. How is the uncanny really a familiar thing to a person, according to Freud?

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

7. When does Freud argue human's creative process comes into play?

8. What is an artist able to do for him or herself and his or her viewers?

9. What is the uncanny at odds with, according to Freud?

10. What is a person's daydream an attempt to live out?

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