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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 fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(b) When man takes pleasure from mental work.
(c) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.
(d) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.

2. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(b) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(c) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(d) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.

3. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By fulfilling all desires.
(b) By removing all temptations.
(c) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(d) By taming nature through science.

4. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?
(a) Chronos and Uranus.
(b) Eros and Ananke.
(c) Pan and Hades.
(d) Demeter and Zeus.

5. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?
(a) The paranoiac.
(b) The schizophrenic.
(c) The artist.
(d) The pathological liar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

3. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?

4. How does Freud say we see civilization?

5. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?

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