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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 was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on endogamy.
(b) The taboo on exogamy.
(c) The taboo on bestiality.
(d) The taboo on incest.

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

3. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?
(a) Moral indifference.
(b) An out-of-body sensation.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Profound pleasure.

4. Whom does Freud say he would be wronging, to love his neighbor as himself?
(a) His family.
(b) Himself.
(c) Those who value his love.
(d) The stranger.

5. What does Freud say is the super-ego’s relation to the ego?
(a) It rewards it with feelings of pleasure.
(b) It punishes it with physical pain.
(c) It reads it with promises of pleasure.
(d) It torments it with feelings of dread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?

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

3. What does Freud compare civilization to?

4. Where does Freud say conscience originates?

5. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?

(see the answer key)

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