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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That it could not have been in the same state always.
(b) That its development is inexplicable without religion.
(c) That its development is still not accounted for.
(d) That it was probably intact, even in the child.

2. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(b) That its whole history still exists at once.
(c) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.
(d) That even its present structure is already a ruins.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Intoxicating substances.
(b) Powerful diversions of interest.
(c) Meditation and mysticism.
(d) Substitutive gratifications.

4. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?
(a) Power.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Transcendence.
(d) Grace.

5. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Religiousness.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Irreligion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

2. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?

3. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

4. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

5. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

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