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

2. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Improving the economy.
(b) Domesticating nature for human use.
(c) Increasing the number of members of society.
(d) Protecting human beings from nature.

3. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?
(a) The feeling of a personal god.
(b) The sensation of falling out of the world into dreams.
(c) The feeling of being lost in the world.
(d) The feeling of our own self.

4. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Laughable incompleteness.
(b) Enviable completeness.
(c) Freedom from ever being proved.
(d) Theoretical implausibility.

5. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?
(a) That it has not been adequately described in religious literature.
(b) That nature should provide such a direct feeling of connection.
(c) That it is not the fountain and origin of all religious feelings.
(d) That more people do not share it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

2. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?

3. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?

4. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

5. What does Freud say is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?

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