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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 love seeks for?
(a) Answers.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Values to love.
(d) Objects.

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

3. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Transcendence.
(c) Grace.
(d) Power.

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) Less realistic.
(b) Coarser.
(c) Finer.
(d) More intense.

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(b) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(c) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(d) That few men have the education to understand the answer.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

4. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?

5. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

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