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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As a scam.
(b) As an ilusion.
(c) As an opiate.
(d) As a source of life.

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

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

10. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?
(a) A taboo surrounding women, particularly during menstruation.
(b) The mother’s desire to keep her progeny close to her.
(c) An mutual non-aggression agreement between brothers.
(d) An unapproachable authority of the father.

11. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Finer.
(c) Coarser.
(d) Less realistic.

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

13. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Nauseating.
(b) Oceanic.
(c) Laughable.
(d) Absurd.

14. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) The mother’s womb.
(b) The first cradle.
(c) Society's laws.
(d) Society itself.

15. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.
(b) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.
(c) Regulating relations between men.
(d) Making it possible to improve medical science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

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

3. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?

4. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

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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