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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?
(a) The question of intellectual attraction.
(b) The question of the other’s worth.
(c) The question of the heart's capacity.
(d) The question of sexual desire.

2. What does Freud say about restrictions on sexual life if society is to be held together?
(a) They are necessary.
(b) They inhibit social cohesion.
(c) They can be replaced by other restrictions.
(d) They are not always necessary.

3. Where does Freud ultimately test and validate his conclusions about guilt and remorse?
(a) Poetry and the arts.
(b) Biblical literature.
(c) Clinical observation.
(d) Extensive research.

4. What does Freud say a neighbor tempts a man to?
(a) Love.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Taboo sexual uses.

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

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

7. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?
(a) It is externalized.
(b) It is dissipated.
(c) It is internalized.
(d) It is organized.

8. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?
(a) He says that they are complementary.
(b) He says that it is harder to love your neighbor than your enemy.
(c) He says they are opposed.
(d) He says they are the same.

9. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?
(a) The high-minded nature of man.
(b) The divine grace of God.
(c) The power of the state to regulate human affairs.
(d) The power of the Devil, or man’s innate destructiveness.

10. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?
(a) Moral indifference.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) An out-of-body sensation.
(d) Profound pleasure.

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

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

13. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?
(a) The reality principle.
(b) A death instinct.
(c) The importance of sadism.
(d) The importance of narcissism.

14. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?
(a) To make one out of one.
(b) To make one out of many.
(c) To blur distinctions between individuals.
(d) To make individual lovers unique.

15. What does Freud say is hidden from the super-ego?
(a) Crimes.
(b) Action.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect do violent men have on society?

2. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?

3. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?

4. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?

5. Where does Freud say conscience originates?

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