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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 a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Purity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Irreligion.
(d) Religiousness.

2. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.
(b) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.
(c) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(d) When man takes pleasure from mental work.

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

4. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?
(a) Profound pleasure.
(b) An out-of-body sensation.
(c) Moral indifference.
(d) Self-loathing.

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?
(a) That man is made in God’s benign image.
(b) That inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.
(c) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.
(d) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?

2. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

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

4. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?

5. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?

(see the answer key)

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