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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Irreligion.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Religion.

2. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?
(a) The use of art.
(b) The use of tools.
(c) The use of language.
(d) The use of prayer.

3. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) A transcendent aim.
(b) A manifest aim.
(c) An inhibited aim.
(d) A fulfilled aim.

4. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?
(a) It must acknowledge every variety.
(b) It must police arbitrary boundaries about sexual behavior.
(c) It must be enforced public rules in private.
(d) It must be the same for all.

5. What does Freud say we will never overcome?
(a) Nature.
(b) Language.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Society.

6. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?
(a) Men’s behavior.
(b) Ancient Greek texts.
(c) Brain science.
(d) Pathology reports.

7. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Transcendent.
(b) Wise.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Infantile.

8. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?
(a) Religious experiences.
(b) Being in love.
(c) Being sick.
(d) Dreaming.

9. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?
(a) Increasing cleanliness.
(b) Reducing anxiety.
(c) Perfecting God's work.
(d) Reducing the effect of nature.

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

11. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(c) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(d) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.

12. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It is a fleeting experience.
(b) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(c) It can be sought in innumerable ways.
(d) It can never be satisfied.

13. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?
(a) That the earth would not provide for him always.
(b) That his lot was in his own hands.
(c) That he was capable of making tools.
(d) That he was capable of controlling his environment.

14. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Laws.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Art.

15. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?
(a) That it has not been adequately described in religious literature.
(b) That more people do not share it.
(c) That nature should provide such a direct feeling of connection.
(d) That it is not the fountain and origin of all religious feelings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

3. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

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

5. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?

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