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

2. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?
(a) Omnipotence.
(b) Cultural history.
(c) Memory.
(d) Language.

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

4. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From the spirit.
(b) From the outer world.
(c) From our relations.
(d) From the body.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is society based on, according to Freud?

2. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

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

4. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

5. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

(see the answer key)

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