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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 the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
(a) Co-ordination.
(b) Co-opting.
(c) Mutual exclusion.
(d) Antagonism.

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

3. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) Society itself.
(b) The mother’s womb.
(c) Society's laws.
(d) The first cradle.

4. What does Freud say we will never overcome?
(a) Language.
(b) Nature.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Society.

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(b) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(c) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(d) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?

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

3. What does Freud say people undervalue?

4. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?

5. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

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