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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 intensifies the strength of the conscience?
(a) Gratification.
(b) Religion.
(c) Misfortune.
(d) Experience.

2. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) The first cradle.
(b) Society itself.
(c) Society's laws.
(d) The mother’s womb.

3. What forces does Freud say are balanced in animals, that they are not aware of cultural struggles?
(a) Environment and instincts.
(b) Danger and hunger.
(c) Function and form.
(d) Lust and seasons.

4. What does Freud say the feeling of guilt expresses?
(a) Despair over having lost freedom to conscience.
(b) The revenge of satisfied longings.
(c) Contradictory wishes.
(d) The disapproval of the father.

5. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) Coarser.
(b) Finer.
(c) More intense.
(d) Less realistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

2. Which does Freud say comes first?

3. What is society based on, according to Freud?

4. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?

5. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

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