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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 wastes valuable energies.
(b) It wastes valuable energies.
(c) It causes regrets in sober men.
(d) It is destructive.

2. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?
(a) Ancient Greek texts.
(b) Pathology reports.
(c) Brain science.
(d) Men’s behavior.

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Whether it comes from within or from without.
(b) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(c) Whether it is renewable or finite.
(d) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.

4. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(b) The source of religious sentiments.
(c) The reality of myths and gods.
(d) The danger of disbelief.

5. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
(a) The Egyptian pyramids.
(b) The crypts in Paris.
(c) The Parthenon.
(d) The ancient city of Rome.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?

3. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

4. How does Freud characterize religion?

5. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

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