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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?
(a) The feeling of being lost in the world.
(b) The feeling of our own self.
(c) The feeling of a personal god.
(d) The sensation of falling out of the world into dreams.

2. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.
(b) Making it possible to improve medical science.
(c) Regulating relations between men.
(d) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.

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

4. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) As an intellectual judgment.
(b) As a raw superstition.
(c) As a mere wish-fulfillment.
(d) As an irrational faith.

5. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?
(a) They are impatient.
(b) They are ill at ease.
(c) They are content.
(d) They are creative.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

2. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?

3. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

4. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?

5. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?

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