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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Oceanic.
(b) Laughable.
(c) Nauseating.
(d) Absurd.

2. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That its development is still not accounted for.
(b) That it was probably intact, even in the child.
(c) That its development is inexplicable without religion.
(d) That it could not have been in the same state always.

3. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) A transcendent, unbounded experience.
(b) A mathematical certainty.
(c) A purely personal experience.
(d) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.

4. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it originates in pure intuition.
(b) When it originates in a powerful need.
(c) When it comes from an external source.
(d) When it is motivated by religious intuition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

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

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

4. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?

5. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

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