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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud say he can tell that the death instinct exists?
(a) He says that there is proof in non-sexual violence.
(b) He says that there is only a theoretical notion.
(c) He says that it is a background to Eros.
(d) He says that it can be interpolated from the Great War.

2. What does Freud say a neighbor tempts a man to?
(a) Love.
(b) Taboo sexual uses.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Aggression.

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

4. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?
(a) Others who are not yet initiated.
(b) Others who are despised.
(c) Regulations on sexual behavior
(d) Prohibitions on property ownership.

5. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(c) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(d) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize writing?

2. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

3. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?

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

5. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

(see the answer key)

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