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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(b) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(c) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.
(d) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.

2. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Religiousness.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Irreligion.

3. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Flagellation.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Intoxication.

4. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?
(a) Being sick.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Religious experiences.
(d) Being in love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say we will never overcome?

2. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

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

4. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

5. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

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