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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 happens when men do not exercise their aggression?
(a) They are ill at ease.
(b) They are creative.
(c) They are impatient.
(d) They are content.

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

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

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

5. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?
(a) Even the Devil must have been created by God.
(b) The Devil would not have any power if he was not part of God.
(c) The Devil is no more provable than God.
(d) Old superstitious ideas have been outgrown in modern times.

6. 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) Man's innate aggression.
(c) Mankind's need for divine grace.
(d) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.

7. What does Freud say love seeks for?
(a) Answers.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Values to love.
(d) Objects.

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

9. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
(a) He says that they are both illusory concepts.
(b) He says that they are both enemies of Christians.
(c) He says that they are both scapegoats.
(d) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.

10. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?
(a) He says that it has not been seen since the hunter-gatherers.
(b) He says that it never existed in human society.
(c) He says that it is coming into existence in the 20th century.
(d) He says that it is a mark of early agricultural culture only.

11. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?
(a) Find the right partner.
(b) Remain celibate.
(c) Make sacrifices.
(d) Love all humanity.

12. What does Freud say libido intersects with, at a certain point?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Repression.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) Instinctual energy.

13. What does Freud say his love seems to be, to him?
(a) Something he needs to abide by, no matter what it demands.
(b) Something he is compelled to give to society.
(c) Something he needs to control and regulate.
(d) Something he can give according to his whim.

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

15. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) The pleasure principle.
(b) The reality principle.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Libidinal instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say seems to be unimportant to the unity of human society?

2. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?

3. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?

4. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?

5. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?

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