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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?
(a) A child's need for food.
(b) A child's need for God.
(c) A child’s need for a father.
(d) A child's need for a mother.

3. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(b) Inner peace and spiritual development.
(c) Power and success.
(d) Control over the people around them.

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

5. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?
(a) The use of tools.
(b) The use of prayer.
(c) The use of art.
(d) The use of language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?

2. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

3. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

4. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

5. How does Freud characterize writing?

(see the answer key)

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