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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?
(a) The use of tools.
(b) The use of prayer.
(c) The use of language.
(d) The use of art.

2. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) Neurotics.
(d) Perverts.

3. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?
(a) That good and evil are predestined and unchangeable.
(b) A benign Providence watches them.
(c) A beneficent God has evolved alongside man.
(d) A force for good balances the forces for evil.

4. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(b) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(c) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(d) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.

5. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) A mathematical certainty.
(b) A purely personal experience.
(c) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.
(d) A transcendent, unbounded experience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?

4. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

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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