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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 a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Purity.
(b) Irreligion.
(c) Religion.
(d) Religiousness.

2. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The generative impulse.
(b) The death drive.
(c) The pleasure principle.
(d) The reality principle.

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

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Coarser.
(c) Finer.
(d) Less realistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

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

3. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

4. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?

5. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

(see the answer key)

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