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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 the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?
(a) Neurosis as a reversion to self-love.
(b) The need for rites of passage from adolescence into adulthood.
(c) The motivations for sadism.
(d) Violence as a form of aggression toward the external world.

2. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(b) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.

3. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?
(a) Fear and loathing.
(b) Bread and circuses.
(c) Hunger and love.
(d) Lust and shame.

4. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love of humanity.
(b) Love of a spouse.
(c) Love of a brother.
(d) Love a child.

5. What objection does Freud raise, to this highest kind of love?
(a) That erotic love surpasses it.
(b) That not all men are worthy of love.
(c) That love changes as its object grows older.
(d) That there is no comparing types of love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?

3. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?

4. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?

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

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