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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?
(a) When we enjoy art.
(b) When we love.
(c) When we retreat.
(d) When we make art.

2. How does Freud say we see civilization?
(a) As our haven from suffering.
(b) As part of our suffering.
(c) As another nature.
(d) As an externalization of ourselves.

3. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love of humanity.
(b) Love of a brother.
(c) Love a child.
(d) Love of a spouse.

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

5. How does Freud characterize writing?
(a) As a manifestation of the unconscious.
(b) As a record of God's thoughts.
(c) As an exteriorization of the inner voice.
(d) As an externalization of the voice of the absent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freud say “extra-genital forms of satisfaction” are “interdicted”?

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

4. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?

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

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