Civilization and Its Discontents Test | Final Test - Easy

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Civilization and Its Discontents Test | Final Test - Easy

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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 love seeks for?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Objects.
(c) Answers.
(d) Values to love.

2. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?
(a) Bring its demands into speech.
(b) Moderate its demands.
(c) Clarify its demands.
(d) Make his patients conscious of it.

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

4. Freud says that it is hard to see Eros and the death instinct unmixed together. Where does he say he might expect to see them?
(a) Infants.
(b) Religious types.
(c) Neurotics.
(d) Extreme cases.

5. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it is expressed politically.
(b) When it takes place in intimate relationships.
(c) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(d) When it is turned inward.

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

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

8. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?
(a) To hold society together.
(b) To perpetuate the species.
(c) To resolve differences.
(d) To renew men’s desire to live.

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

10. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?
(a) Exploitation of Nature.
(b) Control over Nature.
(c) Indifference to other people’s sufferings.
(d) Control over people in whom it is unharnessed.

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

12. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?
(a) That human psychology will be the same in capitalist and communist societies.
(b) That nature provides men with unequal gifts.
(c) That envy and violence live in the human heart, and cannot be assuaged by economics.
(d) That values are determined through desires, which are irrational.

13. How does guilt express itself, according to Freud?
(a) In a desire for punishment.
(b) In a self-destructive behavior.
(c) In a desire to break the rules.
(d) In a desire for gratification.

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

15. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?
(a) In the desire a child has to return to an earlier state.
(b) In the rejection of actual authorities for conscience.
(c) In the Oedipal murder of the father.
(d) In the fear of the loss of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which does Freud say comes first?

2. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

3. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?

4. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?

5. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?

(see the answer keys)

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