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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Freud say the savage blames if bad things happen to him?
(a) His fetish.
(b) Himself.
(c) His society.
(d) His fate.

2. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?
(a) The question of the other’s worth.
(b) The question of sexual desire.
(c) The question of the heart's capacity.
(d) The question of intellectual attraction.

3. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(b) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.

4. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?
(a) It starves the psyche so that sexual life is not fed.
(b) It drives sexual energy out so it has no outlet.
(c) It controls it by levying sexual energy.
(d) It destroys any objects the sexual life could claim outside marriage.

5. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?
(a) The pathological liar.
(b) The paranoiac.
(c) The schizophrenic.
(d) The artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

2. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?

3. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

4. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?

5. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?

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