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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 a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Irreligion.
(b) Religion.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Purity.

2. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?
(a) The techniques for avoiding confrontation.
(b) The history of racism.
(c) The variety of mankind.
(d) The power of sexism.

3. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Religion.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Irreligion.

4. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Infantile.
(c) Wise.
(d) Transcendent.

5. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) A mathematical certainty.
(b) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.
(c) A purely personal experience.
(d) A transcendent, unbounded experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?

3. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

4. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

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