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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud find to be important about one's childhood to adult memories?
(a) The fact that our adult memories are literal and our childhood one's are not.
(b) He finds no connection.
(c) The fact that our childhood memories reflect our hidden desires.
(d) The fact that our childhood memories differ in emotional power than our adult ones.

2. What does the childhood period serve in a person's life, according to Freud?
(a) It shapes us as adults.
(b) The essential and formative period in the development of the adult psyche.
(c) The essential and formative period in the development of the adolescent psyche.
(d) It is unimportant.

3. What does Freud feel Da Vinci's bizarre childhood memory really is?
(a) An uncanny.
(b) A screen memory.
(c) A hidden desire.
(d) A projection.

4. What does our unconscious mind operate on, according to Freud?
(a) Many images.
(b) Associations to images.
(c) Many different associatons and analogies.
(d) Different connections.

5. What happens when the forces coexist in the case of a childhood memory?
(a) The memory is preserved.
(b) The memory is shattered.
(c) The memory is erased.
(d) The memory is void.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Da Vinci only halfheartedly accepted by?

2. What does Freud intend to do by looking at Da Vinci?

3. According to Freud, what do people often fantasize about before an event takes place?

4. What was Da Vinci's nickname that Freud agrees was an appropriate name for him?

5. What smacks baby Da Vinci on the lips in his childhood memory?

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