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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 aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) An inhibited aim.
(b) A transcendent aim.
(c) A manifest aim.
(d) A fulfilled aim.

2. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?
(a) Language.
(b) Sex.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Religion.

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

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

5. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Infantile.
(b) Wise.
(c) Ridiculous.
(d) Transcendent.

6. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From the spirit.
(b) From our relations.
(c) From the outer world.
(d) From the body.

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

8. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Irreligion.
(b) Religion.
(c) Purity.
(d) Religiousness.

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

10. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love a child.
(b) Love of a spouse.
(c) Love of a brother.
(d) Love of humanity.

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

12. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By loving mankind in general.
(b) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(c) By turning their love into art.
(d) By keeping their love temporary.

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

14. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Religiousness.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Irreligion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

2. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?

3. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

4. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?

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

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