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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?
(a) The question of intellectual attraction.
(b) The question of the other’s worth.
(c) The question of sexual desire.
(d) The question of the heart's capacity.

2. What does Freud say intensifies the strength of the conscience?
(a) Gratification.
(b) Experience.
(c) Misfortune.
(d) Religion.

3. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?
(a) In every patriarch.
(b) In people’s minds.
(c) In every family.
(d) In every city.

4. What does Freud say is the limit of Eros?
(a) It is perfected in the abstract love of all society.
(b) It is purest in one person alone.
(c) It does not work on more than two people at a time.
(d) It comes into focus and clarity when there is a triangle of three.

5. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Moral indifference.
(c) An out-of-body sensation.
(d) Profound pleasure.

6. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Lust.
(c) Shame.
(d) Envy.

7. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?
(a) Believe because the social cost is high if you do not.
(b) Believe because you need your enemies to think this way as well.
(c) Believe because it is absurd.
(d) Believe because it is transcendent.

8. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) The ego.
(b) The father.
(c) Society.
(d) The beloved.

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

10. Where does Freud say conscience originates?
(a) In acts of renunciation.
(b) In acts of punishment.
(c) In powerlessness before authority.
(d) In misfortunes suffered.

11. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?
(a) Corrective institutions.
(b) Social ties.
(c) Rites of passage.
(d) Individual development.

12. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
(a) He says that they are both enemies of Christians.
(b) He says that they are both illusory concepts.
(c) He says that they are both scapegoats.
(d) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.

13. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Survival.
(d) Sacrifice.

14. What does Freud say is the most pressing problem in the evolution of culture?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Authority.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Freud’s patients not believe, in his account?

3. How does Freud distinguish between the individual trend in civilization, and the cultural trend in civilization?

4. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?

5. How does Freud describe wickedness?

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