View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say needs to be taken into account when considering the love one should have for neighbors and enemies?
(a) Man's innate aggression.
(b) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.
(c) Humanity's original sin.
(d) Mankind's need for divine grace.

2. What does Freud say people give up in exchange for their membership in society?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Remorse.
(d) Desire.

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

4. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Clans started to fight each other.
(b) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(c) Men started to work together.
(d) Men started to subjugate women.

5. How does Freud characterize the relationship between Eros and the death principle?
(a) He says they are mutually beneficial.
(b) He says that they merge in communal ritual.
(c) He says that they are irreconcilable.
(d) He says that they merge in marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?

2. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?

3. What question does Freud say no one asks?

4. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?

5. How does Freud characterize writing?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 337 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample