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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 happens to things that are formed in the mind?
(a) They never vanish.
(b) They disappear if they are not recalled.
(c) They become specters.
(d) They naturally disappear in time.

2. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?
(a) Eros and Ananke.
(b) Demeter and Zeus.
(c) Pan and Hades.
(d) Chronos and Uranus.

3. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?
(a) Power.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Grace.
(d) Transcendence.

4. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?
(a) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.
(b) That man is made in God’s benign image.
(c) That inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.
(d) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.

5. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It wastes valuable energies.
(b) It wastes valuable energies.
(c) It is destructive.
(d) It causes regrets in sober men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?

2. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?

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

5. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?

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