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

2. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The generative impulse.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) The death drive.
(d) The reality principle.

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

4. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(c) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(d) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.

5. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Nauseating.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Oceanic.
(d) Laughable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?

2. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

3. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

4. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?

5. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

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