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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They build it up.
(b) They threaten to dissolve it.
(c) They define its boundaries.
(d) They catalyze it.

5. What does Freud say the libidinal elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?
(a) Symptoms.
(b) Obsession.
(c) Remorse.
(d) Guilt.

6. 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 Oedipal murder of the father.
(c) In the fear of the loss of love.
(d) In the rejection of actual authorities for conscience.

7. Who does Freud say takes the place of mother and father, as people grow up?
(a) Once's instincts.
(b) Society as a whole.
(c) The leaders of society.
(d) One's offspring.

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

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

10. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?
(a) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.
(b) That man is made in God’s benign image.
(c) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.
(d) That inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.

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

12. What does Freud say the aggressive elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?
(a) Nihilism.
(b) Symptoms.
(c) Remorse.
(d) Guilt.

13. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?
(a) Women.
(b) Neurotics.
(c) Men.
(d) Perverts.

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

15. What does Freud say needs to be taken into account when considering the love one should have for neighbors and enemies?
(a) Man's innate aggression.
(b) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.
(c) Mankind's need for divine grace.
(d) Humanity's original sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which does Freud say comes first?

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

3. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?

4. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?

5. How does Freud distinguish between the individual trend in civilization, and the cultural trend in civilization?

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