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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?
(a) A child’s need for a father.
(b) A child's need for God.
(c) A child's need for food.
(d) A child's need for a mother.

2. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) Man's conscience.
(b) All of reality.
(c) The history of religion.
(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 its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.
(d) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.

4. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(b) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?

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

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

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

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

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