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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?
(a) Helpmeets.
(b) Life partners.
(c) Concubines.
(d) Sexual objects.

2. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?
(a) The feeling of a personal god.
(b) The feeling of our own self.
(c) The feeling of being lost in the world.
(d) The sensation of falling out of the world into dreams.

3. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Transcendent.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Infantile.
(d) Wise.

4. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?
(a) That the earth would not provide for him always.
(b) That his lot was in his own hands.
(c) That he was capable of controlling his environment.
(d) That he was capable of making tools.

5. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on bestiality.
(b) The taboo on endogamy.
(c) The taboo on exogamy.
(d) The taboo on incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?

3. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?

4. How does Freud say we see civilization?

5. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

(see the answer key)

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