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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 only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Psychology.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

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