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

2. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(b) When it is expressed politically.
(c) When it is turned inward.
(d) When it takes place in intimate relationships.

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

4. How does Freud characterize the relationship between Eros and the death principle?
(a) He says that they merge in marriage.
(b) He says they are mutually beneficial.
(c) He says that they merge in communal ritual.
(d) He says that they are irreconcilable.

5. What forces does Freud say are balanced in animals, that they are not aware of cultural struggles?
(a) Environment and instincts.
(b) Danger and hunger.
(c) Lust and seasons.
(d) Function and form.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?

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

3. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?

4. How does Freud say he can tell that the death instinct exists?

5. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud describe the function of narcissism in the ego?

2. In what three spheres does Freud see the same interplay between Eros and death playing out?

3. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

4. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?

5. What insights does Freud offer into the value of communism?

6. What resistance does Freud offer to the notion that he should love his neighbor as himself?

7. How does Freud characterize the emergence of the death instinct?

8. How, according to Freud, do other people figure differently in sensual love and social love?

9. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

10. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?

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