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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 is renewable or finite.
(d) Whether it comes from within or from without.

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

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

4. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.
(b) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(c) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(d) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.

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

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

7. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Strict.

8. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
(a) As an obstacle.
(b) As an ingredient.
(c) As a façade.
(d) As a story.

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

10. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(b) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(c) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(d) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.

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

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

13. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?
(a) Reducing the effect of nature.
(b) Increasing cleanliness.
(c) Reducing anxiety.
(d) Perfecting God's work.

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

15. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?
(a) Justice.
(b) Order.
(c) Community.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

3. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?

4. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?

5. What kinds of examples does Freud offer as examples of modern progress?

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