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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
(a) They are not exclusive.
(b) They provide the basis for business ventures.
(c) They allow families to merge.
(d) They preserve the freedom of the parties.

2. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) A fulfilled aim.
(b) An inhibited aim.
(c) A transcendent aim.
(d) A manifest aim.

3. What does Freud say we will never overcome?
(a) Society.
(b) Language.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Nature.

4. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?
(a) Exploitation of Nature.
(b) Indifference to other people’s sufferings.
(c) Control over Nature.
(d) Control over people in whom it is unharnessed.

5. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?
(a) The importance of sadism.
(b) The importance of narcissism.
(c) A death instinct.
(d) The reality principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?

2. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?

3. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?

4. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?

5. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?

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