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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?
(a) An mutual non-aggression agreement between brothers.
(b) An unapproachable authority of the father.
(c) A taboo surrounding women, particularly during menstruation.
(d) The mother’s desire to keep her progeny close to her.

2. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?
(a) It is externalized.
(b) It is dissipated.
(c) It is internalized.
(d) It is organized.

3. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?
(a) Transcendent experiences.
(b) Pathological processes.
(c) Drug-induced experiences.
(d) Morbid processes.

4. What does Freud say a neighbor tempts a man to?
(a) Love.
(b) Taboo sexual uses.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Revolution.

5. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?
(a) Hunger and love.
(b) Bread and circuses.
(c) Lust and shame.
(d) Fear and loathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud ultimately test and validate his conclusions about guilt and remorse?

2. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?

3. What is society based on, according to Freud?

4. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?

5. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

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