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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Coarser.
(c) Less realistic.
(d) Finer.

2. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?
(a) Memory.
(b) Omnipotence.
(c) Language.
(d) Cultural history.

3. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That its whole history still exists at once.
(b) That even its present structure is already a ruins.
(c) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(d) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.

4. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?
(a) It must police arbitrary boundaries about sexual behavior.
(b) It must acknowledge every variety.
(c) It must be enforced public rules in private.
(d) It must be the same for all.

5. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He cannot find it in himself.
(b) He has seen it in others.
(c) He has known it in moments.
(d) He knows it from his reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize religion?

2. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?

3. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

4. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?

5. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?

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