View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the social consequence of this realization?

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

4. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

5. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Freud says that the man’s need for religion comes from?

5. What role does dirt play, in civilization, according to Freud?

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

7. When does Freud say this view came into fashion?

8. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

9. What does Freud say are the benefits and dangers of intoxication?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Would you recommend Civilization and Its Discontents? For what purposes would you recommend Civilization and Its Discontents, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 2

Freud says that society is a living organism that externalizes the life of the individual and follows the same psychological patterns. Using an example from current events, find the mechanisms Freud is talking about in a cultural phenomenon.

Essay Topic 3

Freud’s work was ground-breaking at the time, and it is still not completely accepted or understood, but its consequences were nonetheless significant. Using examples from the text, describe the consequences of Freud’s ideas. How does he lead us to see the world, if we are going to apply his ideas to day-to-day life?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,076 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample