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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 most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Flagellation.
(c) Abstinence.
(d) Intoxication.

2. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?
(a) Alternatively tender and stormy.
(b) Unchangeable and tender.
(c) Relentless and possessive.
(d) Peaceful and pure.

3. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?
(a) The capacity for empathy and feeling.
(b) The ability to exploit natural resources.
(c) The emphasis on intellectual activities.
(d) The ability to efficiently control the masses.

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

5. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Religion.
(d) Physiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

2. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

3. What does Freud say we will never overcome?

4. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

5. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?

(see the answer key)

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