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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Flagellation.
(b) Abstinence.
(c) Intoxication.
(d) Chastity.

3. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?
(a) Self-discovery.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Stability.
(d) Increase.

4. What does Freud compare civilization to?
(a) A diplomatic mission.
(b) A permissive regime.
(c) A repressive regime.
(d) A form of market haggling.

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

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

7. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(b) The reality of myths and gods.
(c) The source of religious sentiments.
(d) The danger of disbelief.

8. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That it was probably intact, even in the child.
(b) That it could not have been in the same state always.
(c) That its development is inexplicable without religion.
(d) That its development is still not accounted for.

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

10. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes pleasure from mental work.
(b) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(c) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.
(d) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.

11. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?
(a) That he was capable of controlling his environment.
(b) That he was capable of making tools.
(c) That the earth would not provide for him always.
(d) That his lot was in his own hands.

12. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?
(a) Concubines.
(b) Helpmeets.
(c) Sexual objects.
(d) Life partners.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?

3. What question does Freud say no one asks?

4. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?

5. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

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