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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
2. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?
3. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?
4. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
5. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?
2. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?
3. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of denying the world, in Freud's account?
5. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?
6. What does Freud say the ordinary man understands by his religion?
7. What role does Freud say genital erotic life plays in the development of the civilized man?
8. How does Freud characterize the roles of Eros and Ananke in the development of civilization?
9. What are the three palliative remedies to the unbearable difficulty of life?
10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beauty as a consolation for the difficulties of reality?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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