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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it takes place in intimate relationships.
(b) When it is turned inward.
(c) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(d) When it is expressed politically.

2. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?
(a) They are content.
(b) They are ill at ease.
(c) They are creative.
(d) They are impatient.

3. What does Freud say is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
(a) Antagonism.
(b) Co-opting.
(c) Co-ordination.
(d) Mutual exclusion.

4. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?
(a) Control over Nature.
(b) Indifference to other people’s sufferings.
(c) Exploitation of Nature.
(d) Control over people in whom it is unharnessed.

5. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?
(a) Believe because it is transcendent.
(b) Believe because it is absurd.
(c) Believe because the social cost is high if you do not.
(d) Believe because you need your enemies to think this way as well.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?

3. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?

4. Whom does Freud say he would be wronging, to love his neighbor as himself?

5. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?

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