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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?
(a) The use of prayer.
(b) The use of tools.
(c) The use of language.
(d) The use of art.

6. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it originates in a powerful need.
(b) When it originates in pure intuition.
(c) When it comes from an external source.
(d) When it is motivated by religious intuition.

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

8. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?
(a) Intellectual energy.
(b) Familial energy.
(c) Sexual energy.
(d) Spiritual energy.

9. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?
(a) The religious feeling is a morbid effect in still-immature adults.
(b) The religious feeling depends on certain crises in adolescence, or else it vanishes.
(c) The religious feeling is abandoned when the child reaches adolescence.
(d) The religious feeling is a remnant of the child’s all-encompassing ego.

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

11. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?
(a) The regulation of sexual desire.
(b) The exploitation of minerals.
(c) The development of communications technologies.
(d) The regulation of rivers.

12. 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.

13. 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.

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

15. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?

2. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

3. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

4. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?

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

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