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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’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) The danger of disbelief.
(b) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(c) The reality of myths and gods.
(d) The source of religious sentiments.

2. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
(a) The crypts in Paris.
(b) The Parthenon.
(c) The Egyptian pyramids.
(d) The ancient city of Rome.

3. What does the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?
(a) Violence as a form of aggression toward the external world.
(b) The need for rites of passage from adolescence into adulthood.
(c) Neurosis as a reversion to self-love.
(d) The motivations for sadism.

4. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?
(a) Alternatively tender and stormy.
(b) Peaceful and pure.
(c) Unchangeable and tender.
(d) Relentless and possessive.

5. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(b) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.
(c) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.
(d) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?

2. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

3. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?

4. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

5. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?

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