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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
(a) They provide the basis for business ventures.
(b) They allow families to merge.
(c) They are not exclusive.
(d) They preserve the freedom of the parties.

2. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?
(a) To resolve differences.
(b) To perpetuate the species.
(c) To hold society together.
(d) To renew men’s desire to live.

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

4. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?
(a) Intellectual energy.
(b) Spiritual energy.
(c) Sexual energy.
(d) Familial energy.

5. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Freedom from ever being proved.
(b) Theoretical implausibility.
(c) Laughable incompleteness.
(d) Enviable completeness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say love seeks for?

2. What does Freud say libido intersects with, at a certain point?

3. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?

4. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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