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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They catalyze it.
(b) They define its boundaries.
(c) They threaten to dissolve it.
(d) They build it up.

2. What does Freud say his love seems to be, to him?
(a) Something he can give according to his whim.
(b) Something he needs to abide by, no matter what it demands.
(c) Something he is compelled to give to society.
(d) Something he needs to control and regulate.

3. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?
(a) Less interdependence between groups.
(b) More and more violent wars.
(c) Larger numbers of humans.
(d) Smaller communities.

4. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it originates in a powerful need.
(b) When it is motivated by religious intuition.
(c) When it originates in pure intuition.
(d) When it comes from an external source.

5. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By turning their love into art.
(b) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(c) By keeping their love temporary.
(d) By loving mankind in general.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

2. Whom does Freud say he would be wronging, to love his neighbor as himself?

3. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?

4. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

5. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?

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