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

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

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

4. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?
(a) Because it is imposed from without.
(b) Because it is antagonistic to nature.
(c) Because it makes promises it cannot fulfill.
(d) Because it is an obstacle to religion.

5. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(b) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(c) Whether it comes from within or from without.
(d) Whether it is renewable or finite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

2. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?

3. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?

4. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?

5. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What role does Freud say genital erotic life plays in the development of the civilized man?

4. How does the role of women change, as men began to feel torn between sensual and aim-inhibited love?

5. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

6. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?

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

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

9. What is Freud's response to his friend's feeling?

10. How would you describe Freud’s style of argumentation?

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