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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 is turned inward.
(b) When it is expressed politically.
(c) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(d) When it takes place in intimate relationships.

2. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(b) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.

3. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?
(a) Life partners.
(b) Sexual objects.
(c) Helpmeets.
(d) Concubines.

4. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on incest.
(b) The taboo on exogamy.
(c) The taboo on endogamy.
(d) The taboo on bestiality.

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 turning their love into art.
(d) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the business of women?

2. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?

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

4. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

5. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?

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