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

2. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?
(a) Individual development.
(b) Corrective institutions.
(c) Rites of passage.
(d) Social ties.

3. Where does Freud say conscience originates?
(a) In acts of punishment.
(b) In powerlessness before authority.
(c) In acts of renunciation.
(d) In misfortunes suffered.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?
(a) The regulation of rivers.
(b) The regulation of sexual desire.
(c) The development of communications technologies.
(d) The exploitation of minerals.

5. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Theoretical implausibility.
(b) Laughable incompleteness.
(c) Enviable completeness.
(d) Freedom from ever being proved.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?

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

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

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

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