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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 does the first essay of "The Uncanny" discuss?
(a) Childhood behaviors.
(b) Childhood illnesses.
(c) Childhood memories.
(d) Childhood disorders.

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

3. When does Freud argue the creative process begins for a person?
(a) When they are three years old.
(b) At birth.
(c) In play.
(d) In the womb.

4. How does Freud see a person's dreams at night?
(a) A path to an opportunity of reality.
(b) Fantastical realizations.
(c) Opportunities for the unconsicous mind and the id to fulfill their desires.
(d) A break from reality.

5. Where do those who suffer from unhealthy dreaming go to?
(a) A state of psychosis.
(b) Sleep.
(c) A mental facility.
(d) No where.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the suppression in a dreamer usually a result of, according to Freud?

2. What did Henri do with his companions to the person in his early childhood dream?

3. What must be disguised symbolically in the form of a dream?

4. Who did Henri fall in love with in his adolescent memory?

5. How does Freud end "Creative Writing and Daydreaming"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What must a person's desires be disguised as?

2. What does Freud conclude about Henri's case?

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

4. What is suggested about the uncanny in relationship to the theme of the entire book of "The Uncanny"?

5. What does Freud see the common fear of blindness really is?

6. What happens in an unhealthy persons fantasies?

7. What are screen memories?

8. What happens in Henri's childhood memory?

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

10. What role does the evil twin of evil double have on the uncanny?

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