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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Freedom from ever being proved.
(b) Theoretical implausibility.
(c) Enviable completeness.
(d) Laughable incompleteness.

2. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By turning their love into art.
(b) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(c) By keeping their love temporary.
(d) By loving mankind in general.

3. What animal does Freud say man is to his fellow man?
(a) Horse.
(b) Cat.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Dog.

4. What effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They define its boundaries.
(b) They catalyze it.
(c) They build it up.
(d) They threaten to dissolve it.

5. What does the conscience take the place of?
(a) The death instinct.
(b) External authority.
(c) The pleasure principle.
(d) The super-ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

2. How does Freud say “extra-genital forms of satisfaction” are “interdicted”?

3. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

5. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?

(see the answer key)

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