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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As an opiate.
(b) As a source of life.
(c) As an ilusion.
(d) As a scam.

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

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

4. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Purity.
(b) Religiousness.
(c) Irreligion.
(d) Religion.

5. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That it was probably intact, even in the child.
(b) That its development is inexplicable without religion.
(c) That its development is still not accounted for.
(d) That it could not have been in the same state always.

6. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?
(a) Because it is an obstacle to religion.
(b) Because it makes promises it cannot fulfill.
(c) Because it is imposed from without.
(d) Because it is antagonistic to nature.

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

8. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) A knowledge of evolution.
(b) A knowledge of anatomy.
(c) A knowledge of neurosis.
(d) The scientific method.

9. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?
(a) Smaller communities.
(b) More and more violent wars.
(c) Less interdependence between groups.
(d) Larger numbers of humans.

10. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?
(a) The artist.
(b) The schizophrenic.
(c) The pathological liar.
(d) The paranoiac.

11. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?
(a) The law of brotherly reciprocity.
(b) The pedagogy of the oppressed.
(c) Psychological economic necessity.
(d) Master-slave dialectic.

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

13. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) Man's conscience.
(b) Organized religion.
(c) All of reality.
(d) The history of religion.

14. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?
(a) Spiritual energy.
(b) Sexual energy.
(c) Intellectual energy.
(d) Familial energy.

15. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Inner peace and spiritual development.
(b) Power and success.
(c) Control over the people around them.
(d) Healthy adjustment to their environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize writing?

2. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?

3. What does Freud say wise men have ever warned against?

4. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?

5. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?

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