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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 is a fleeting experience.
(b) It can never be satisfied.
(c) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(d) It can be sought in innumerable ways.

2. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Psychology.

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

4. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(b) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Art.
(d) Laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?

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

5. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

(see the answer key)

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