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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?
(a) Purification and perfection of the body.
(b) Pleasure and avoidance of pain.
(c) Profit and pleasure.
(d) Power and control over nature.

2. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love of humanity.
(b) Love a child.
(c) Love of a spouse.
(d) Love of a brother.

3. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?
(a) A force for good balances the forces for evil.
(b) A benign Providence watches them.
(c) That good and evil are predestined and unchangeable.
(d) A beneficent God has evolved alongside man.

4. What does the conscience take the place of?
(a) The pleasure principle.
(b) The death instinct.
(c) The super-ego.
(d) External authority.

5. Who does Freud say the savage blames if bad things happen to him?
(a) Himself.
(b) His fetish.
(c) His fate.
(d) His society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?

2. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

3. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?

4. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?

5. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?

(see the answer key)

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