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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?
(a) Being in love.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Religious experiences.
(d) Being sick.

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

5. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) Coarser.
(b) Less realistic.
(c) More intense.
(d) Finer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

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

3. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?

4. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

5. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?

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