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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 people undervalue?
(a) The value of power and success.
(b) The truly valuable things in life.
(c) The desire to revenge childhood wrongs.
(d) The need for a spiritual life.

2. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Whether it is renewable or finite.
(b) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(c) Whether it comes from within or from without.
(d) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant

3. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It is a fleeting experience.
(b) It can never be satisfied.
(c) It can be sought in innumerable ways.
(d) It involves men in numerous contradictions.

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

5. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) The reality of myths and gods.
(b) The source of religious sentiments.
(c) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(d) The danger of disbelief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?

2. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

3. What question does Freud say no one asks?

4. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?

5. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

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