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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?
(a) They are content.
(b) They are creative.
(c) They are ill at ease.
(d) They are impatient.

2. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Infantile.
(c) Transcendent.
(d) Wise.

3. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?
(a) That human psychology will be the same in capitalist and communist societies.
(b) That nature provides men with unequal gifts.
(c) That values are determined through desires, which are irrational.
(d) That envy and violence live in the human heart, and cannot be assuaged by economics.

4. What is society based on, according to Freud?
(a) Common sacrifice.
(b) Religious prohibitions.
(c) Individual liberty.
(d) Development of laws.

5. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(b) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(c) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.
(d) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?

2. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?

3. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?

4. What forces does Freud say are balanced in animals, that they are not aware of cultural struggles?

5. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

(see the answer key)

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