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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 society endeavors to restrict violence?
(a) By authorizing violence for certain uses.
(b) By forcing self-monitoring in the people.
(c) Be exiling violent people.
(d) By claiming violence as its sole right.

2. 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 envy and violence live in the human heart, and cannot be assuaged by economics.
(c) That values are determined through desires, which are irrational.
(d) That nature provides men with unequal gifts.

3. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As an opiate.
(b) As a scam.
(c) As an ilusion.
(d) As a source of life.

4. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes pleasure from mental work.
(b) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.
(c) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(d) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.

5. What does Freud say needs to be taken into account when considering the love one should have for neighbors and enemies?
(a) Mankind's need for divine grace.
(b) Humanity's original sin.
(c) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.
(d) Man's innate aggression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?

2. How does Freud say we see civilization?

3. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?

4. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?

5. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?

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