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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Da Vinci cool to the differences between?
(a) Holy and cursed.
(b) Dark and light.
(c) Night and day.
(d) Good and evil.

2. How do children tend to think of the father, according to Freud?
(a) That he is a warrior.
(b) That he is the strongest of men.
(c) That he is a liar.
(d) That he is handsome.

3. What does the son believe if he has a sister?
(a) That his sister is not really his sister.
(b) That his dad hurt his mother to have his sister.
(c) That his mother had an extramarital affair.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who was Da Vinci only halfheartedly accepted by?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His mother.

5. What smacks baby Da Vinci on the lips in his childhood memory?
(a) The vulture's tail.
(b) The crane's tail.
(c) The vulture's hand.
(d) The rooster's tail.

6. What does Freud argue happens to the child in the first stage of the developmental process?
(a) The child questions everything.
(b) The child begins to grow territorial.
(c) The child feels that others are taking his or her parents away from them.
(d) The child loves everyone.

7. How does the son perceive his father after learning about his parent's sexual roles?
(a) He lowers his mother to a lower level.
(b) He raises his mother to a higher level.
(c) He raises his father to a higher level.
(d) Nothing.

8. What did Da Vinci desire that was a common desire in many dreamers?
(a) To fly.
(b) To swim.
(c) To die.
(d) To live forever.

9. How does the son begin to see his mother after learning about his parent's sexual roles?
(a) As a form of Satan.
(b) Sexually.
(c) As a goddess.
(d) Asexually.

10. What happens in the second stage of a child's developmental process, according to Freud?
(a) The child begins to question his or her parents.
(b) The child loves no one.
(c) The child may begin to hate his or her parents.
(d) The child may fantasize that he or she was adopted.

11. What does Freud argue the appearance of an emperor or empress means in one's dream?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A representatio of the dreamer's parents.
(c) Their need for order and rule.
(d) Their desire for authority.

12. What culture believes a vulture is a symbol of one's mother?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) American.
(c) French.
(d) Italian.

13. What stage takes on a sexual nature after the sexual differences of father and mother are recognized?
(a) The informative stage.
(b) The aesxual stage.
(c) The hidden desire stage.
(d) The null stage.

14. How did Da Vinci perceive romantic love?
(a) Too idealized.
(b) With regret.
(c) With hope.
(d) With disgust.

15. What image does a child try to retain?
(a) The bad image of his parents.
(b) The good image of his parents.
(c) The happy childhood he or she had.
(d) The happy memories of his or her parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word fly related to in many languages?

2. What did Da Vinci avoid eating?

3. How many parts is "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood" divided into?

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

5. Who was exiled from his family as a child?

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