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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
(a) The ancient city of Rome.
(b) The Egyptian pyramids.
(c) The Parthenon.
(d) The crypts in Paris.

2. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?
(a) Religion.
(b) Justice.
(c) Community.
(d) Order.

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

4. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(b) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(c) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(d) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.

5. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?
(a) Cultural history.
(b) Omnipotence.
(c) Memory.
(d) Language.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?

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

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

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