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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Freud say a man feels as a result of a cultural super-ego?
(a) Remorse for unfulfilled potential.
(b) Desire for escape from society.
(c) Nostalgia for regressive states.
(d) Anxiety of conscious.

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

6. 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.

7. Which does Freud say comes first?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Desire for punishment.
(d) Consciousness of guilt.

8. How does Freud characterize our culture’s methods of preparing young people for their lives as adults?
(a) Like outfitting a warrior in protective armor.
(b) Like teaching a tradesman the use of his tools.
(c) Like training a bear to sing and dance on cue.
(d) Like sending an Artic expedition with summer sweaters.

9. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?
(a) Believe because it is transcendent.
(b) Believe because the social cost is high if you do not.
(c) Believe because you need your enemies to think this way as well.
(d) Believe because it is absurd.

10. 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.

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

12. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?
(a) The theory of aggression.
(b) The theory of artistic creativity.
(c) The theory of instincts.
(d) Analytic theory.

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

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

15. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?
(a) He is blind to it, it is so familiar.
(b) He finds it unnatural.
(c) He is appalled by it.
(d) He is comforted by it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say love seeks for?

4. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?

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

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