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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?
(a) The pedagogy of the oppressed.
(b) Psychological economic necessity.
(c) Master-slave dialectic.
(d) The law of brotherly reciprocity.

2. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?
(a) They naturally disappear in time.
(b) They disappear if they are not recalled.
(c) They never vanish.
(d) They become specters.

3. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?
(a) It must be enforced public rules in private.
(b) It must police arbitrary boundaries about sexual behavior.
(c) It must acknowledge every variety.
(d) It must be the same for all.

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

5. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Laughable incompleteness.
(b) Freedom from ever being proved.
(c) Theoretical implausibility.
(d) Enviable completeness.

6. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?
(a) That good and evil are predestined and unchangeable.
(b) A force for good balances the forces for evil.
(c) A benign Providence watches them.
(d) A beneficent God has evolved alongside man.

7. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?
(a) As a feeling of being cared for.
(b) As a feeling of floating.
(c) As a feeling of being swindled.
(d) As a feeling of eternity.

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

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

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

11. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
(a) The failure to manifest heaven on earth.
(b) The filthiness of most gardens.
(c) The relative happiness of Indians.
(d) The excesses of modern scientific methods.

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

13. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(b) Power and success.
(c) Inner peace and spiritual development.
(d) Control over the people around them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

3. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?

4. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

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

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