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

2. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.
(b) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(c) That even its present structure is already a ruins.
(d) That its whole history still exists at once.

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

4. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
(a) They preserve the freedom of the parties.
(b) They allow families to merge.
(c) They are not exclusive.
(d) They provide the basis for business ventures.

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Laws.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?

2. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?

3. How does Freud characterize writing?

4. What kinds of examples does Freud offer as examples of modern progress?

5. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud say was the consequence of man’s realization that his lot could be improved by his own labors?

2. What does Freud use the city of Rome as a metaphor for?

3. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

4. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?

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

6. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?

7. Why does Freud say progress has not made modern man any happier?

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

9. What are the three palliative remedies to the unbearable difficulty of life?

10. What misconception does Freud dispel at the end of Chapter 3?

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