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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Freedom from ever being proved.
(b) Laughable incompleteness.
(c) Theoretical implausibility.
(d) Enviable completeness.

3. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) The reality of myths and gods.
(b) The danger of disbelief.
(c) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(d) The source of religious sentiments.

4. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(b) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(c) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(d) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.

5. What does Freud say people undervalue?
(a) The need for a spiritual life.
(b) The value of power and success.
(c) The truly valuable things in life.
(d) The desire to revenge childhood wrongs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?

4. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?

5. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

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