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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say people undervalue?
(a) The need for a spiritual life.
(b) The value of power and success.
(c) The truly valuable things in life.
(d) The desire to revenge childhood wrongs.

2. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
(a) The ancient city of Rome.
(b) The Parthenon.
(c) The crypts in Paris.
(d) The Egyptian pyramids.

3. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) A transcendent, unbounded experience.
(b) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.
(c) A mathematical certainty.
(d) A purely personal experience.

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

5. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Clans started to fight each other.
(b) Men started to work together.
(c) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(d) Men started to subjugate women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

2. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?

3. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?

4. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

5. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?

(see the answer key)

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