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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 first act of civilization?
(a) The use of prayer.
(b) The use of language.
(c) The use of tools.
(d) The use of art.

2. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love of a brother.
(b) Love of humanity.
(c) Love a child.
(d) Love of a spouse.

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(b) Whether it comes from within or from without.
(c) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(d) Whether it is renewable or finite.

4. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?
(a) Perfecting God's work.
(b) Reducing anxiety.
(c) Reducing the effect of nature.
(d) Increasing cleanliness.

5. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By loving mankind in general.
(b) By keeping their love temporary.
(c) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(d) By turning their love into art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the social consequence of this realization?

2. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?

3. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?

4. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

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