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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?
(a) The regulation of sexual desire.
(b) The regulation of rivers.
(c) The exploitation of minerals.
(d) The development of communications technologies.

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

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

4. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) Libidinal instincts.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) Sadism.

5. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?
(a) As a feeling of floating.
(b) As a feeling of being cared for.
(c) As a feeling of being swindled.
(d) As a feeling of eternity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

2. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?

3. How does Freud say “extra-genital forms of satisfaction” are “interdicted”?

4. What is society based on, according to Freud?

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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