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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Mathematics.

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

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

4. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(b) Power and success.
(c) Inner peace and spiritual development.
(d) Control over the people around them.

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

6. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
(a) As a façade.
(b) As an obstacle.
(c) As a story.
(d) As an ingredient.

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

8. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Coarser.
(c) Less realistic.
(d) Finer.

9. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?
(a) They never vanish.
(b) They naturally disappear in time.
(c) They become specters.
(d) They disappear if they are not recalled.

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

11. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?
(a) Increase.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Stability.

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

13. 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.

14. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The death drive.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) The generative impulse.
(d) The reality principle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

2. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?

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

4. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?

5. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

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