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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Stability.
(d) Increase.

2. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Oceanic.
(c) Nauseating.
(d) Laughable.

3. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?
(a) The relations between neighbors.
(b) The relation between man and animal.
(c) The relationship between husband and wife.
(d) The relation between family members.

4. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It is a fleeting experience.
(b) It can be sought in innumerable ways.
(c) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(d) It can never be satisfied.

5. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Making it possible to improve medical science.
(b) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.
(c) Regulating relations between men.
(d) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

2. How does Freud characterize religion?

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

4. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?

5. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?

(see the answer key)

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