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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 is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
(a) Antagonism.
(b) Co-ordination.
(c) Mutual exclusion.
(d) Co-opting.

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

3. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?
(a) An out-of-body sensation.
(b) Moral indifference.
(c) Profound pleasure.
(d) Self-loathing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?

2. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?

3. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?

4. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?

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

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