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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) As an irrational faith.
(b) As a raw superstition.
(c) As a mere wish-fulfillment.
(d) As an intellectual judgment.

4. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(b) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(c) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(d) That few men have the education to understand the answer.

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

6. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?
(a) Life partners.
(b) Helpmeets.
(c) Concubines.
(d) Sexual objects.

7. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Regulating relations between men.
(b) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.
(c) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.
(d) Making it possible to improve medical science.

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

9. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?
(a) That good and evil are predestined and unchangeable.
(b) A force for good balances the forces for evil.
(c) A beneficent God has evolved alongside man.
(d) A benign Providence watches them.

10. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
(a) They preserve the freedom of the parties.
(b) They provide the basis for business ventures.
(c) They allow families to merge.
(d) They are not exclusive.

11. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It causes regrets in sober men.
(b) It is destructive.
(c) It wastes valuable energies.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

12. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?
(a) The sensation of falling out of the world into dreams.
(b) The feeling of a personal god.
(c) The feeling of being lost in the world.
(d) The feeling of our own self.

13. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) The filthiness of most gardens.
(b) The relative happiness of Indians.
(c) The failure to manifest heaven on earth.
(d) The excesses of modern scientific methods.

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

15. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?
(a) A child's need for a mother.
(b) A child's need for food.
(c) A child's need for God.
(d) A child’s need for a father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?

3. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?

4. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

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

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