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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?
(a) The law of brotherly reciprocity.
(b) Psychological economic necessity.
(c) Master-slave dialectic.
(d) The pedagogy of the oppressed.

3. What is society based on, according to Freud?
(a) Common sacrifice.
(b) Individual liberty.
(c) Development of laws.
(d) Religious prohibitions.

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

5. How does Freud say we see civilization?
(a) As our haven from suffering.
(b) As an externalization of ourselves.
(c) As part of our suffering.
(d) As another nature.

6. What does Freud say is the business of women?
(a) The extension of the family
(b) The business of community.
(c) The work of religion.
(d) The interests of the family.

7. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Men started to work together.
(b) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(c) Men started to subjugate women.
(d) Clans started to fight each other.

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

9. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) A purely personal experience.
(b) A transcendent, unbounded experience.
(c) A mathematical certainty.
(d) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.

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

11. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As a scam.
(b) As an ilusion.
(c) As a source of life.
(d) As an opiate.

12. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?
(a) As a feeling of floating.
(b) As a feeling of being cared for.
(c) As a feeling of being swindled.
(d) As a feeling of eternity.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?

2. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?

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

4. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?

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

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