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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He has seen it in others.
(b) He has known it in moments.
(c) He knows it from his reading.
(d) He cannot find it in himself.

2. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Power and success.
(b) Control over the people around them.
(c) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(d) Inner peace and spiritual development.

3. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?
(a) Pathological processes.
(b) Drug-induced experiences.
(c) Transcendent experiences.
(d) Morbid processes.

4. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?
(a) The religious feeling depends on certain crises in adolescence, or else it vanishes.
(b) The religious feeling is a remnant of the child’s all-encompassing ego.
(c) The religious feeling is a morbid effect in still-immature adults.
(d) The religious feeling is abandoned when the child reaches adolescence.

5. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It is a fleeting experience.
(b) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(c) It can never be satisfied.
(d) It can be sought in innumerable ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

2. What question does Freud say no one asks?

3. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

4. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?

5. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

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