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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 society’s principal endeavor is?
(a) To control territory in common.
(b) To preserve individual freedoms.
(c) To provide for protection.
(d) To bind people in groups.

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

3. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) Libidinal instincts.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) Sadism.
(d) The reality principle.

4. What does Freud say destructive behavior is directed outward?
(a) Because the state sanctions this.
(b) To protect the inner self.
(c) Because certain people deserve violence.
(d) To participate in the divine of act of creativity through violence.

5. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?
(a) Survival.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Neurosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?

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

3. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?

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

5. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?

(see the answer key)

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