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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objection does Freud raise, to this highest kind of love?
(a) That there is no comparing types of love.
(b) That erotic love surpasses it.
(c) That not all men are worthy of love.
(d) That love changes as its object grows older.

2. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) The filthiness of most gardens.
(b) The relative happiness of Indians.
(c) The excesses of modern scientific methods.
(d) The failure to manifest heaven on earth.

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

4. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It wastes valuable energies.
(b) It causes regrets in sober men.
(c) It is destructive.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

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

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

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

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

9. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
(a) They are not exclusive.
(b) They provide the basis for business ventures.
(c) They preserve the freedom of the parties.
(d) They allow families to merge.

10. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?
(a) Religious experiences.
(b) Being sick.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Being in love.

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

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

13. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?
(a) Because it is imposed from without.
(b) Because it makes promises it cannot fulfill.
(c) Because it is an obstacle to religion.
(d) Because it is antagonistic to nature.

14. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) Organized religion.
(b) Man's conscience.
(c) The history of religion.
(d) All of reality.

15. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Increasing the number of members of society.
(b) Protecting human beings from nature.
(c) Domesticating nature for human use.
(d) Improving the economy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

2. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?

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

4. What is society based on, according to Freud?

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

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