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

2. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Regulating relations between men.
(b) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.
(c) Making it possible to improve medical science.
(d) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.

3. What does Freud say is hidden from the super-ego?
(a) Crimes.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Action.
(d) Thoughts.

4. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) A manifest aim.
(b) An inhibited aim.
(c) A transcendent aim.
(d) A fulfilled aim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?

2. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

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

4. What does Freud say libido intersects with, at a certain point?

5. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?

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