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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 wastes valuable energies.
(b) It is destructive.
(c) It causes regrets in sober men.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

2. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) The history of religion.
(b) Man's conscience.
(c) All of reality.
(d) Organized religion.

3. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That its whole history still exists at once.
(b) That even its present structure is already a ruins.
(c) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(d) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.

4. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(b) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(c) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.
(d) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?

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

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

4. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

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

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