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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?
(a) The relation between family members.
(b) The relations between neighbors.
(c) The relationship between husband and wife.
(d) The relation between man and animal.

2. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it originates in pure intuition.
(b) When it originates in a powerful need.
(c) When it comes from an external source.
(d) When it is motivated by religious intuition.

3. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It wastes valuable energies.
(b) It is destructive.
(c) It causes regrets in sober men.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

2. How does Freud characterize writing?

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

4. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

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

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