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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it comes from an external source.
(b) When it originates in a powerful need.
(c) When it is motivated by religious intuition.
(d) When it originates in pure intuition.

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

3. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By removing all temptations.
(b) By taming nature through science.
(c) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(d) By fulfilling all desires.

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

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. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

2. What question does Freud say no one asks?

3. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?

4. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

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

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