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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 distinguishes happiness from troubles?
(a) We take it for granted.
(b) We are always surprised by it.
(c) We view it subjectively.
(d) We view it objectively.

2. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?
(a) The religious feeling is a remnant of the child’s all-encompassing ego.
(b) The religious feeling is a morbid effect in still-immature adults.
(c) The religious feeling is abandoned when the child reaches adolescence.
(d) The religious feeling depends on certain crises in adolescence, or else it vanishes.

3. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(b) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(c) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.
(d) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.

4. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He has known it in moments.
(b) He cannot find it in himself.
(c) He has seen it in others.
(d) He knows it from his reading.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Powerful diversions of interest.
(b) Intoxicating substances.
(c) Substitutive gratifications.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?

2. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

3. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

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

5. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?

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