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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(b) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(c) Whether it comes from within or from without.
(d) Whether it is renewable or finite.

2. What is society based on, according to Freud?
(a) Development of laws.
(b) Religious prohibitions.
(c) Common sacrifice.
(d) Individual liberty.

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

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

5. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?
(a) Alternatively tender and stormy.
(b) Peaceful and pure.
(c) Relentless and possessive.
(d) Unchangeable and tender.

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

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

8. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?
(a) The history of racism.
(b) The power of sexism.
(c) The variety of mankind.
(d) The techniques for avoiding confrontation.

9. 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) A transcendent aim.
(c) A manifest aim.
(d) An inhibited aim.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(b) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize religion?

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

3. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?

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

5. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

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