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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. Whose is the sole relationship that Freud says is not affected by property?
(a) Mother and son.
(b) Brother and brother.
(c) Father and son.
(d) Mother and daughter.

2. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?
(a) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.
(b) That inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.
(c) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.
(d) That man is made in God’s benign image.

3. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?
(a) The fear of losing love.
(b) The threat of physical punishment.
(c) The promise of physical pleasure.
(d) The danger of exposure to the elements.

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

5. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.
(b) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(c) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(d) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

2. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?

3. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?

4. What does Freud say a man feels as a result of a cultural super-ego?

5. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud mean when he says that the problem of guilt as “the most important problem in the evolution of civilization”?

2. What services does Freud say the Jewish people served for the Aryans in Europe?

3. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

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

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

6. What is the role of misfortune in the formation of the super-ego, according to Freud?

7. How pervasive does Freud say the human sentiments about property are?

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

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

10. What goal does Freud say the instincts are leading man toward?

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