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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?
(a) Less interdependence between groups.
(b) More and more violent wars.
(c) Larger numbers of humans.
(d) Smaller communities.

2. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(b) By loving mankind in general.
(c) By turning their love into art.
(d) By keeping their love temporary.

3. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?
(a) Self-destructive behavior.
(b) Peace and happiness.
(c) Neurosis.
(d) A rite of passage into adulthood.

4. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It wastes valuable energies.
(c) It wastes valuable energies.
(d) It causes regrets in sober men.

5. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) The reality principle.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) Libidinal instincts.
(d) Sadism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objection does Freud raise, to this highest kind of love?

2. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

3. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say destructive behavior is directed outward?

5. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

(see the answer key)

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