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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?
(a) A child's need for food.
(b) A child’s need for a father.
(c) A child's need for a mother.
(d) A child's need for God.

2. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That its whole history still exists at once.
(b) That even its present structure is already a ruins.
(c) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(d) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.

3. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?
(a) They become specters.
(b) They naturally disappear in time.
(c) They never vanish.
(d) They disappear if they are not recalled.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

2. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

3. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

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

5. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

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