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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does our unconscious mind operate on, according to Freud?

2. What is the difference between night and day dreams, according to Freud?

3. How does Freud see a person's dreams at night?

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

5. What does stealing the flowers represent in Henri's adolescent memory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the uncanny related to anxiety?

4. What does Freud see happening from living out possibilities that would be denied to the daydreamer in real life?

5. Discuss Da Vinci in relationship to science and art congruently.

6. What does Freud see our dreams as?

7. Discuss the importance of an individual's childhood according to Freud.

8. What happens in a healthy persons fantasies?

9. What happens in an unhealthy persons fantasies?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and describe the role the ego plays in a person's dreams.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif and idea that childhood experiences play a detrimental role in one's adult life.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how Freud argues artists are capable of manifesting pleasures desired in their dreams through their work.

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