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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 is still necessary, if men are united in love?
(a) Others who are not yet initiated.
(b) Others who are despised.
(c) Regulations on sexual behavior
(d) Prohibitions on property ownership.

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

3. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?
(a) It destroys any objects the sexual life could claim outside marriage.
(b) It drives sexual energy out so it has no outlet.
(c) It starves the psyche so that sexual life is not fed.
(d) It controls it by levying sexual energy.

4. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?
(a) Fear of the loss of love.
(b) Dread of the super-ego.
(c) Desire for non-existence.
(d) Longing for fulfillment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is the super-ego’s relation to the ego?
(a) It rewards it with feelings of pleasure.
(b) It punishes it with physical pain.
(c) It torments it with feelings of dread.
(d) It reads it with promises of pleasure.

15. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?
(a) That nature provides men with unequal gifts.
(b) That human psychology will be the same in capitalist and communist societies.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?

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

4. What effect do violent men have on society?

5. What does Freud say people give up in exchange for their membership in society?

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