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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 is the suppression in a dreamer usually a result of, according to Freud?
(a) A conflict between the unconscious and conscious.
(b) The conflict between reality and fantasy.
(c) The conflict between the ego and the conscious.
(d) The conflict between the desire and the reality.

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

3. What does a daydream attempt to do for the dreamer?
(a) Live out hidden desires.
(b) Avoid real life.
(c) Escape real life.
(d) Alleviate pressure of real life.

4. What does the little girl represent in Henri's adolescent memory?
(a) His love.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His desire.
(d) His incest.

5. What is the difference between night and day dreams, according to Freud?
(a) Daydreams are more acceptable than night dreams.
(b) Night dreams are more acceptable than day dreams.
(c) Night dreams are supreme to daydreams.
(d) Daydreams are irrelevant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henri remember about what he was given in his early childhood dream?

2. Who did Henri stay at the countryside with?

3. What does the bread in Henri's childhood memory represent?

4. Where does the artist sublimate the actual pleasure of one's dreams into?

5. What does Freud find to be important about one's childhood to adult memories?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a child perceive his parents when he or she is young, according to Freud?

2. What happens in a healthy persons fantasies?

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

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

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

6. Describe Freud's student that has an adult fear of sand.

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

8. Why has Freud's student remained fearful of sand?

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

10. Describe Da Vinci with women.

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