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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?
(a) Sex.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Language.
(d) Religion.

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

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

4. 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.

5. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?
(a) When we love.
(b) When we enjoy art.
(c) When we make art.
(d) When we retreat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

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

3. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?

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

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