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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?
(a) The dangers associated with libidinal liberty.
(b) The near-universality of the incest taboo in adults.
(c) The fundamental kindness and love of others.
(d) The universality of non-erotic aggression.

2. What does Freud say needs to be taken into account when considering the love one should have for neighbors and enemies?
(a) Mankind's need for divine grace.
(b) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.
(c) Humanity's original sin.
(d) Man's innate aggression.

3. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?
(a) That man is made in God’s benign image.
(b) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.
(c) That inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.
(d) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.

4. Whom does Freud say he would be wronging, to love his neighbor as himself?
(a) The stranger.
(b) Those who value his love.
(c) His family.
(d) Himself.

5. What does Freud say is the most pressing problem in the evolution of culture?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Authority.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Guilt.

6. What does Freud say destructive behavior is directed outward?
(a) Because the state sanctions this.
(b) To protect the inner self.
(c) To participate in the divine of act of creativity through violence.
(d) Because certain people deserve violence.

7. What does Freud say the dangerous and hostile aspects of love are typically attributed to?
(a) Flaws in human nature.
(b) Sublimation of the pleasure principle.
(c) Neurotic self-destructiveness.
(d) A fundamental bipolarity in its nature.

8. Where does Freud say conscience originates?
(a) In acts of punishment.
(b) In acts of renunciation.
(c) In powerlessness before authority.
(d) In misfortunes suffered.

9. How does Freud say he can tell that the death instinct exists?
(a) He says that there is proof in non-sexual violence.
(b) He says that it can be interpolated from the Great War.
(c) He says that there is only a theoretical notion.
(d) He says that it is a background to Eros.

10. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?
(a) Social ties.
(b) Rites of passage.
(c) Corrective institutions.
(d) Individual development.

11. What animal does Freud say man is to his fellow man?
(a) Horse.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Cat.
(d) Dog.

12. What effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They define its boundaries.
(b) They catalyze it.
(c) They build it up.
(d) They threaten to dissolve it.

13. What does Freud say he seeks in scientific work?
(a) Simplification without ignoring facts.
(b) New ways of describing familiar facts.
(c) Fulfillment of ideas and hypotheses.
(d) Elaboration of the variations of possible truths.

14. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?
(a) By authorizing violence for certain uses.
(b) By claiming violence as its sole right.
(c) Be exiling violent people.
(d) By forcing self-monitoring in the people.

15. What do Freud’s patients not believe, in his account?
(a) His diagnosis of unconscious guilt.
(b) His belief in the salutary effect of guilt.
(c) His description of their conscious guilt.
(d) His prognosis that guilt will remain with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize our culture’s methods of preparing young people for their lives as adults?

2. What does Freud say the feeling of guilt expresses?

3. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?

4. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?

5. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?

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