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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?
(a) Language.
(b) Cultural history.
(c) Memory.
(d) Omnipotence.

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?
(a) The value of power and success.
(b) The desire to revenge childhood wrongs.
(c) The truly valuable things in life.
(d) The need for a spiritual life.

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

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Substitutive gratifications.
(b) Intoxicating substances.
(c) Powerful diversions of interest.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.

6. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) The scientific method.
(b) A knowledge of anatomy.
(c) A knowledge of neurosis.
(d) A knowledge of evolution.

7. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) The mother’s womb.
(b) Society itself.
(c) Society's laws.
(d) The first cradle.

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

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

10. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(b) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(c) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(d) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.

11. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(b) By removing all temptations.
(c) By taming nature through science.
(d) By fulfilling all desires.

12. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on incest.
(b) The taboo on endogamy.
(c) The taboo on exogamy.
(d) The taboo on bestiality.

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

14. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?
(a) Power.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Transcendence.
(d) Grace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?

2. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

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

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

5. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

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