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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?
(a) Fear and loathing.
(b) Hunger and love.
(c) Bread and circuses.
(d) Lust and shame.

3. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?
(a) Envy.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Lust.
(d) Shame.

4. What does Freud say people give up in exchange for their membership in society?
(a) Desire.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Remorse.

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

6. What does Freud say intensifies the strength of the conscience?
(a) Religion.
(b) Misfortune.
(c) Gratification.
(d) Experience.

7. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?
(a) By redeeming sin through Christ’s sacrifice.
(b) By binding men and women through marriage.
(c) By the ritual of confession of sins.
(d) By offering men transubstantiation through Communion.

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

9. Who does Freud say the savage blames if bad things happen to him?
(a) His society.
(b) His fate.
(c) Himself.
(d) His fetish.

10. What does the conscience take the place of?
(a) External authority.
(b) The super-ego.
(c) The pleasure principle.
(d) The death instinct.

11. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Survival.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Sacrifice.

12. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(b) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(c) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.
(d) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.

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

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

15. What does Freud say is the limit of Eros?
(a) It is perfected in the abstract love of all society.
(b) It comes into focus and clarity when there is a triangle of three.
(c) It does not work on more than two people at a time.
(d) It is purest in one person alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?

2. What effect do violent men have on society?

3. What does Freud say a neighbor tempts a man to?

4. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?

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

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