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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Substitutive gratifications.
(c) Intoxicating substances.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.

2. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?
(a) Perfecting God's work.
(b) Reducing the effect of nature.
(c) Reducing anxiety.
(d) Increasing cleanliness.

3. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) Society itself.
(b) The mother’s womb.
(c) Society's laws.
(d) The first cradle.

4. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Religiousness.
(b) Purity.
(c) Irreligion.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?

2. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?

3. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?

4. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

5. What is society based on, according to Freud?

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