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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 distinguishes happiness from troubles?
(a) We view it objectively.
(b) We take it for granted.
(c) We view it subjectively.
(d) We are always surprised by it.

2. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(b) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.

3. What does Freud say wise men have ever warned against?
(a) Marraige.
(b) Contraception.
(c) Erotic love.
(d) Procreation.

4. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes pleasure from mental work.
(b) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(c) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.
(d) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That its development is still not accounted for.
(b) That it was probably intact, even in the child.
(c) That it could not have been in the same state always.
(d) That its development is inexplicable without religion.

11. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?
(a) Pan and Hades.
(b) Chronos and Uranus.
(c) Eros and Ananke.
(d) Demeter and Zeus.

12. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That its whole history still exists at once.
(b) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(c) That even its present structure is already a ruins.
(d) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.

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

14. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Compassionate.
(d) Strict.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?

2. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

3. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?

5. What kinds of examples does Freud offer as examples of modern progress?

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