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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By turning their love into art.
(b) By loving mankind in general.
(c) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(d) By keeping their love temporary.

2. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?
(a) The development of weapons.
(b) The ability to communicate.
(c) The construction of houses.
(d) The discovery of fire.

3. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Oceanic.
(b) Nauseating.
(c) Laughable.
(d) Absurd.

4. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Freedom from ever being proved.
(b) Laughable incompleteness.
(c) Theoretical implausibility.
(d) Enviable completeness.

5. How does Freud characterize writing?
(a) As an exteriorization of the inner voice.
(b) As an externalization of the voice of the absent.
(c) As a manifestation of the unconscious.
(d) As a record of God's thoughts.

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

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

8. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(c) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.
(d) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.

9. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Power.
(d) Grace.

10. What does Freud say wise men have ever warned against?
(a) Contraception.
(b) Procreation.
(c) Marraige.
(d) Erotic love.

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

12. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?
(a) As a feeling of being cared for.
(b) As a feeling of eternity.
(c) As a feeling of floating.
(d) As a feeling of being swindled.

13. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.
(b) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(c) When man takes pleasure from mental work.
(d) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.

14. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The pleasure principle.
(b) The reality principle.
(c) The generative impulse.
(d) The death drive.

15. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?
(a) Space exploration.
(b) Scientific progress.
(c) Uselessly beautiful things.
(d) Exploitation of nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?

2. How does Freud characterize religion?

3. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?

5. What does Freud compare civilization to?

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