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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say he seeks in scientific work?
(a) Elaboration of the variations of possible truths.
(b) New ways of describing familiar facts.
(c) Fulfillment of ideas and hypotheses.
(d) Simplification without ignoring facts.

2. What does Freud say the dangerous and hostile aspects of love are typically attributed to?
(a) A fundamental bipolarity in its nature.
(b) Neurotic self-destructiveness.
(c) Sublimation of the pleasure principle.
(d) Flaws in human nature.

3. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?
(a) They are creative.
(b) They are impatient.
(c) They are content.
(d) They are ill at ease.

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

5. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?
(a) The religious feeling depends on certain crises in adolescence, or else it vanishes.
(b) The religious feeling is a remnant of the child’s all-encompassing ego.
(c) The religious feeling is a morbid effect in still-immature adults.
(d) The religious feeling is abandoned when the child reaches adolescence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?

2. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

3. How does Freud characterize religion?

4. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

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