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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 a story.
(b) As a façade.
(c) As an obstacle.
(d) As an ingredient.

2. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?
(a) To bind people in groups.
(b) To provide for protection.
(c) To control territory in common.
(d) To preserve individual freedoms.

3. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?
(a) Purification and perfection of the body.
(b) Power and control over nature.
(c) Profit and pleasure.
(d) Pleasure and avoidance of pain.

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

5. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
(a) He says that they are both scapegoats.
(b) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.
(c) He says that they are both enemies of Christians.
(d) He says that they are both illusory concepts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize writing?

2. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?

3. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say about restrictions on sexual life if society is to be held together?

5. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?

(see the answer key)

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