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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?
(a) It must be enforced public rules in private.
(b) It must acknowledge every variety.
(c) It must be the same for all.
(d) It must police arbitrary boundaries about sexual behavior.

2. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Specialized knowledge.
(c) Uncommon events.
(d) Exceptional cases.

3. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) A transcendent aim.
(b) A fulfilled aim.
(c) A manifest aim.
(d) An inhibited aim.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

2. What does Freud say wise men have ever warned against?

3. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

4. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

5. How does Freud say “extra-genital forms of satisfaction” are “interdicted”?

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