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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 was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on incest.
(b) The taboo on endogamy.
(c) The taboo on exogamy.
(d) The taboo on bestiality.

2. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?
(a) Life partners.
(b) Sexual objects.
(c) Helpmeets.
(d) Concubines.

3. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Purity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Irreligion.

4. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Laws.
(c) Art.
(d) Alcohol.

5. What does Freud compare civilization to?
(a) A diplomatic mission.
(b) A repressive regime.
(c) A permissive regime.
(d) A form of market haggling.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

4. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

5. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?

(see the answer key)

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