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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?
(a) That nature provides men with unequal gifts.
(b) That values are determined through desires, which are irrational.
(c) That human psychology will be the same in capitalist and communist societies.
(d) That envy and violence live in the human heart, and cannot be assuaged by economics.

2. What does Freud say a neighbor tempts a man to?
(a) Aggression.
(b) Love.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Taboo sexual uses.

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

4. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.
(b) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(c) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(d) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.

5. What does Freud say the libidinal elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Obsession.
(c) Symptoms.
(d) Remorse.

6. How does Freud say the sense of guilt produced by culture is expressed?
(a) As self-destructive behavior.
(b) As neurosis in sane people.
(c) As artistic creativity.
(d) As a general discontent.

7. What does Freud say libido intersects with, at a certain point?
(a) Sadism.
(b) The reality principle.
(c) Repression.
(d) Instinctual energy.

8. What do Freud’s patients not believe, in his account?
(a) His prognosis that guilt will remain with them.
(b) His belief in the salutary effect of guilt.
(c) His diagnosis of unconscious guilt.
(d) His description of their conscious guilt.

9. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?
(a) Fear of the loss of love.
(b) Longing for fulfillment.
(c) Dread of the super-ego.
(d) Desire for non-existence.

10. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?
(a) Regulations on sexual behavior
(b) Prohibitions on property ownership.
(c) Others who are despised.
(d) Others who are not yet initiated.

11. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?
(a) A rite of passage into adulthood.
(b) Self-destructive behavior.
(c) Neurosis.
(d) Peace and happiness.

12. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?
(a) He is appalled by it.
(b) He is blind to it, it is so familiar.
(c) He finds it unnatural.
(d) He is comforted by it.

13. How does Freud distinguish between the individual trend in civilization, and the cultural trend in civilization?
(a) Egotistic and altruistic.
(b) Immoral and ethical.
(c) Dependent and independent.
(d) The Eros instinct and the death principle.

14. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?
(a) In the fear of the loss of love.
(b) In the rejection of actual authorities for conscience.
(c) In the Oedipal murder of the father.
(d) In the desire a child has to return to an earlier state.

15. What does Freud say is hidden from the super-ego?
(a) Action.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Crimes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?

3. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?

4. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?

5. How does Freud characterize the relationship between Eros and the death principle?

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