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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Intoxicating substances.
(b) Substitutive gratifications.
(c) Powerful diversions of interest.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.

2. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Purity.
(b) Irreligion.
(c) Religion.
(d) Religiousness.

3. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As an opiate.
(b) As a source of life.
(c) As an ilusion.
(d) As a scam.

4. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(b) By taming nature through science.
(c) By removing all temptations.
(d) By fulfilling all desires.

5. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?
(a) We view it objectively.
(b) We are always surprised by it.
(c) We take it for granted.
(d) We view it subjectively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?

2. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?

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

4. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?

5. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?

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