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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Men started to subjugate women.
(b) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(c) Clans started to fight each other.
(d) Men started to work together.

2. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?
(a) The Devil is no more provable than God.
(b) Old superstitious ideas have been outgrown in modern times.
(c) Even the Devil must have been created by God.
(d) The Devil would not have any power if he was not part of God.

3. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) The pleasure principle.
(b) Sadism.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) Libidinal instincts.

4. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
(a) As an obstacle.
(b) As an ingredient.
(c) As a story.
(d) As a façade.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?
(a) The regulation of rivers.
(b) The development of communications technologies.
(c) The regulation of sexual desire.
(d) The exploitation of minerals.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?

2. What animal does Freud say man is to his fellow man?

3. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?

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

5. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?

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