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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 we see civilization?
(a) As part of our suffering.
(b) As an externalization of ourselves.
(c) As another nature.
(d) As our haven from suffering.

2. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Making it possible to improve medical science.
(b) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.
(c) Regulating relations between men.
(d) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.

3. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The generative impulse.
(b) The death drive.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) The pleasure principle.

4. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?
(a) Transcendent experiences.
(b) Pathological processes.
(c) Morbid processes.
(d) Drug-induced experiences.

5. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?
(a) Women.
(b) Neurotics.
(c) Men.
(d) Perverts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?

3. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?

4. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?

5. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

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