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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?
(a) The relation between man and animal.
(b) The relation between family members.
(c) The relationship between husband and wife.
(d) The relations between neighbors.

2. What does Freud say is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
(a) Antagonism.
(b) Co-opting.
(c) Co-ordination.
(d) Mutual exclusion.

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

4. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Intoxication.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Flagellation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From the body.
(b) From our relations.
(c) From the outer world.
(d) From the spirit.

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

13. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He has seen it in others.
(b) He knows it from his reading.
(c) He has known it in moments.
(d) He cannot find it in himself.

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

15. What kinds of examples does Freud offer as examples of modern progress?
(a) Military improvements.
(b) Medical improvements.
(c) Improvements in urban infrastructure.
(d) Transportation improvements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

2. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?

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

4. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?

5. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?

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