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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 disorders.
(b) Childhood behaviors.
(c) Childhood illnesses.
(d) Childhood memories.

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

3. What does Freud find most heroes in fiction really are?
(a) Fake.
(b) Fantastical people.
(c) Ego projections.
(d) Desires.

4. What can fantasies do to the unhealthy dreamer?
(a) Make them angry.
(b) Make them obsessed or neurotic.
(c) Make them depressed.
(d) It can prevent cognitive thought.

5. Where can the ego put the dreamer?
(a) In many different situations.
(b) In a happy place.
(c) In a coma state.
(d) In a foreign place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Henri stay at the countryside with?

2. What happens as a result from the daydream in the daydreamer's real life?

3. What is banal content and emotional resonance essential to?

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

5. According to Freud, what is the childhood psyche substantially different from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does an uncanny originate?

2. Discuss the two forces Freud finds at play during childhood memories.

3. What does Freud see our dreams as?

4. What happens when a child learns that his parents are not asexual, according to Freud?

5. What does Freud find the subconscious desire allows to manifest?

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

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

8. How are children's memories different from adult memories?

9. What is the uncanny, according to Freud?

10. What happens in an unhealthy persons fantasies?

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