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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By fulfilling all desires.
(b) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(c) By taming nature through science.
(d) By removing all temptations.

3. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(b) It can be sought in innumerable ways.
(c) It can never be satisfied.
(d) It is a fleeting experience.

4. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
(a) The Egyptian pyramids.
(b) The crypts in Paris.
(c) The ancient city of Rome.
(d) The Parthenon.

5. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As a source of life.
(b) As an opiate.
(c) As a scam.
(d) As an ilusion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?

3. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

4. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

5. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?

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