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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?
(a) To preserve individual freedoms.
(b) To control territory in common.
(c) To provide for protection.
(d) To bind people in groups.

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

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

7. How does Freud characterize writing?
(a) As an exteriorization of the inner voice.
(b) As an externalization of the voice of the absent.
(c) As a record of God's thoughts.
(d) As a manifestation of the unconscious.

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

9. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By loving mankind in general.
(b) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(c) By keeping their love temporary.
(d) By turning their love into art.

10. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?
(a) The schizophrenic.
(b) The paranoiac.
(c) The pathological liar.
(d) The artist.

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

12. What is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) A knowledge of anatomy.
(b) A knowledge of evolution.
(c) The scientific method.
(d) A knowledge of neurosis.

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

14. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?
(a) Exploitation of nature.
(b) Uselessly beautiful things.
(c) Scientific progress.
(d) Space exploration.

15. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?
(a) Larger numbers of humans.
(b) Less interdependence between groups.
(c) Smaller communities.
(d) More and more violent wars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?

3. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

4. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?

5. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?

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