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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?
(a) Forbidden longing for the mother.
(b) Ambivalence toward the father.
(c) Loathing directed toward the self.
(d) Anticipation of pleasure.

2. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?
(a) The power of the state to regulate human affairs.
(b) The power of the Devil, or man’s innate destructiveness.
(c) The divine grace of God.
(d) The high-minded nature of man.

3. What does Freud say is the limit of Eros?
(a) It comes into focus and clarity when there is a triangle of three.
(b) It is perfected in the abstract love of all society.
(c) It does not work on more than two people at a time.
(d) It is purest in one person alone.

4. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it is turned inward.
(b) When it is expressed politically.
(c) When it takes place in intimate relationships.
(d) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.

5. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
(a) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.
(b) He says that they are both enemies of Christians.
(c) He says that they are both scapegoats.
(d) He says that they are both illusory concepts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?

2. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?

3. What does Freud say is the business of women?

4. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

5. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

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