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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 is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By fulfilling all desires.
(b) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(c) By taming nature through science.
(d) By removing all temptations.

2. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Wise.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Transcendent.
(d) Infantile.

3. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?
(a) Because it makes promises it cannot fulfill.
(b) Because it is imposed from without.
(c) Because it is an obstacle to religion.
(d) Because it is antagonistic to nature.

4. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?
(a) Lust and shame.
(b) Hunger and love.
(c) Fear and loathing.
(d) Bread and circuses.

5. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) Society.
(b) The beloved.
(c) The ego.
(d) The father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

2. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?

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

4. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?

5. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?

(see the answer key)

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