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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 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.

2. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?
(a) The sensation of falling out of the world into dreams.
(b) The feeling of a personal god.
(c) The feeling of our own self.
(d) The feeling of being lost in the world.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Substitutive gratifications.
(b) Intoxicating substances.
(c) Powerful diversions of interest.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.

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

5. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By fulfilling all desires.
(b) By removing all temptations.
(c) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(d) By taming nature through science.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?

4. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

5. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

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