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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 this notion is in conflict with?
(a) The history of religion.
(b) All of reality.
(c) Organized religion.
(d) Man's conscience.

2. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?
(a) That it is not the fountain and origin of all religious feelings.
(b) That it has not been adequately described in religious literature.
(c) That more people do not share it.
(d) That nature should provide such a direct feeling of connection.

3. 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.

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

5. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.
(b) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(c) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(d) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Freud characterize religion?

5. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?

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