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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Freud say “extra-genital forms of satisfaction” are “interdicted”?
(a) As sins.
(b) As perversions.
(c) As crimes.
(d) As taboos.

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

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

6. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) As an intellectual judgment.
(b) As a mere wish-fulfillment.
(c) As a raw superstition.
(d) As an irrational faith.

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

8. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Abortion.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) Abstinence.

9. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It is a fleeting experience.
(b) It can be sought in innumerable ways.
(c) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(d) It can never be satisfied.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?

4. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

5. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

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