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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 religion?
(a) Infantile.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Transcendent.
(d) Wise.

2. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He knows it from his reading.
(b) He has known it in moments.
(c) He has seen it in others.
(d) He cannot find it in himself.

3. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(b) Inner peace and spiritual development.
(c) Control over the people around them.
(d) Power and success.

4. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) Society's laws.
(b) The mother’s womb.
(c) Society itself.
(d) The first cradle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?

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

4. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

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

(see the answer key)

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