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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 first result of human culture?
(a) Larger numbers of humans.
(b) Smaller communities.
(c) Less interdependence between groups.
(d) More and more violent wars.

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

3. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?
(a) To control territory in common.
(b) To preserve individual freedoms.
(c) To bind people in groups.
(d) To provide for protection.

4. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From our relations.
(b) From the body.
(c) From the outer world.
(d) From the spirit.

5. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The generative impulse.
(b) The reality principle.
(c) The death drive.
(d) The pleasure principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Freud say man is to his fellow man?

2. How does Freud characterize writing?

3. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

4. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?

5. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

(see the answer key)

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