View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?
(a) That it is not the fountain and origin of all religious feelings.
(b) That nature should provide such a direct feeling of connection.
(c) That more people do not share it.
(d) That it has not been adequately described in religious literature.

2. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?
(a) The variety of mankind.
(b) The techniques for avoiding confrontation.
(c) The power of sexism.
(d) The history of racism.

3. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(b) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(c) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(d) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.

4. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?
(a) Men’s behavior.
(b) Pathology reports.
(c) Brain science.
(d) Ancient Greek texts.

5. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(b) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Freud say people undervalue?

5. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 351 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample