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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?
(a) That good and evil are predestined and unchangeable.
(b) A force for good balances the forces for evil.
(c) A benign Providence watches them.
(d) A beneficent God has evolved alongside man.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

2. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?

3. What question does Freud say no one asks?

4. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

5. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?

(see the answer key)

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