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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) As a mere wish-fulfillment.
(b) As an irrational faith.
(c) As an intellectual judgment.
(d) As a raw superstition.

2. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?
(a) That it has not been adequately described in religious literature.
(b) That nature should provide such a direct feeling of connection.
(c) That it is not the fountain and origin of all religious feelings.
(d) That more people do not share it.

3. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) Organized religion.
(b) Man's conscience.
(c) All of reality.
(d) The history of religion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

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

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

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