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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 is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It causes regrets in sober men.
(c) It wastes valuable energies.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

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

3. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From the spirit.
(b) From our relations.
(c) From the body.
(d) From the outer world.

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

5. 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 nature should provide such a direct feeling of connection.
(c) That more people do not share it.
(d) That it has not been adequately described in religious literature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

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

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

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

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