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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Power and success.
(b) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(c) Control over the people around them.
(d) Inner peace and spiritual development.

2. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) A knowledge of evolution.
(b) The scientific method.
(c) A knowledge of neurosis.
(d) A knowledge of anatomy.

3. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By removing all temptations.
(b) By fulfilling all desires.
(c) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(d) By taming nature through science.

4. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Intoxication.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Flagellation.

5. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(b) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

2. How does Freud say we see civilization?

3. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?

4. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

5. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?

(see the answer key)

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