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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 is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It wastes valuable energies.
(c) It causes regrets in sober men.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

2. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Irreligion.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Religion.

3. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As an opiate.
(b) As an ilusion.
(c) As a scam.
(d) As a source of life.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?

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

3. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?

4. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

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

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