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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 compare civilization to?
(a) A permissive regime.
(b) A repressive regime.
(c) A form of market haggling.
(d) A diplomatic mission.

2. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?
(a) As inertia.
(b) As synthesis.
(c) As regression.
(d) As conservatism.

3. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love a child.
(b) Love of a brother.
(c) Love of humanity.
(d) Love of a spouse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?

2. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?

3. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?

4. What does the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?

5. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?

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