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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 the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(b) Whether it is renewable or finite.
(c) Whether it comes from within or from without.
(d) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.

2. What does Freud say is hidden from the super-ego?
(a) Action.
(b) Crimes.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Nothing.

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

4. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?
(a) That values are determined through desires, which are irrational.
(b) That envy and violence live in the human heart, and cannot be assuaged by economics.
(c) That nature provides men with unequal gifts.
(d) That human psychology will be the same in capitalist and communist societies.

5. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?
(a) Others who are not yet initiated.
(b) Regulations on sexual behavior
(c) Prohibitions on property ownership.
(d) Others who are despised.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?

2. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?

3. How does Freud characterize our culture’s methods of preparing young people for their lives as adults?

4. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?

5. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?

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