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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?
(a) As a feeling of being cared for.
(b) As a feeling of being swindled.
(c) As a feeling of floating.
(d) As a feeling of eternity.

2. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?
(a) The question of the other’s worth.
(b) The question of intellectual attraction.
(c) The question of the heart's capacity.
(d) The question of sexual desire.

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

4. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) Organized religion.
(b) All of reality.
(c) The history of religion.
(d) Man's conscience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?

2. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

3. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?

5. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?

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