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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 society endeavors to restrict violence?
(a) Be exiling violent people.
(b) By authorizing violence for certain uses.
(c) By forcing self-monitoring in the people.
(d) By claiming violence as its sole right.

2. 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.

3. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?
(a) Alternatively tender and stormy.
(b) Unchangeable and tender.
(c) Relentless and possessive.
(d) Peaceful and pure.

4. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?
(a) It must acknowledge every variety.
(b) It must be enforced public rules in private.
(c) It must be the same for all.
(d) It must police arbitrary boundaries about sexual behavior.

5. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Protecting human beings from nature.
(b) Improving the economy.
(c) Increasing the number of members of society.
(d) Domesticating nature for human use.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?

3. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?

4. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?

5. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

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