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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(b) Men started to subjugate women.
(c) Clans started to fight each other.
(d) Men started to work together.

5. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Intoxication.
(d) Flagellation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?

2. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?

3. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?

4. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?

5. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?

2. How does Freud say the love instinct has changed throughout the development of civilization?

3. What does Freud say is the end-result of a civilization?

4. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

5. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?

6. What does Freud say is the difference between creating art and enjoying art?

7. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?

8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beauty as a consolation for the difficulties of reality?

9. What does Freud say is the relationship between love and aim-inhibited love?

10. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?

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