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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 men should make humble obeisance” to?
(a) The divine grace of God.
(b) The power of the state to regulate human affairs.
(c) The power of the Devil, or man’s innate destructiveness.
(d) The high-minded nature of man.

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

3. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) The beloved.
(b) The father.
(c) The ego.
(d) Society.

4. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?
(a) A beneficent God has evolved alongside man.
(b) A benign Providence watches them.
(c) That good and evil are predestined and unchangeable.
(d) A force for good balances the forces for evil.

5. 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) An inhibited aim.
(d) A manifest aim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

2. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?

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

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

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

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