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

2. 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 even its present structure is already a ruins.
(d) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.

3. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?
(a) Space exploration.
(b) Scientific progress.
(c) Exploitation of nature.
(d) Uselessly beautiful things.

4. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) The source of religious sentiments.
(b) The reality of myths and gods.
(c) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(d) The danger of disbelief.

5. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That it was probably intact, even in the child.
(b) That its development is still not accounted for.
(c) That its development is inexplicable without religion.
(d) That it could not have been in the same state always.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?

2. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

3. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?

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

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

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