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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 advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?
(a) The development of communications technologies.
(b) The regulation of rivers.
(c) The regulation of sexual desire.
(d) The exploitation of minerals.

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

3. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(b) That its whole history still exists at once.
(c) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.
(d) That even its present structure is already a ruins.

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

5. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) The excesses of modern scientific methods.
(b) The relative happiness of Indians.
(c) The failure to manifest heaven on earth.
(d) The filthiness of most gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

2. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?

3. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

4. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?

5. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

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