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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose is the sole relationship that Freud says is not affected by property?
(a) Father and son.
(b) Mother and daughter.
(c) Brother and brother.
(d) Mother and son.

2. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?
(a) To make one out of many.
(b) To make one out of one.
(c) To make individual lovers unique.
(d) To blur distinctions between individuals.

3. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?
(a) He says they are opposed.
(b) He says that they are complementary.
(c) He says they are the same.
(d) He says that it is harder to love your neighbor than your enemy.

4. What does Freud say the feeling of guilt expresses?
(a) The revenge of satisfied longings.
(b) The disapproval of the father.
(c) Contradictory wishes.
(d) Despair over having lost freedom to conscience.

5. 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) Extreme cases.
(b) Infants.
(c) Religious types.
(d) Neurotics.

6. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Solemnity.
(c) Delight.
(d) Hostility.

7. How does Freud say the sense of guilt produced by culture is expressed?
(a) As artistic creativity.
(b) As self-destructive behavior.
(c) As neurosis in sane people.
(d) As a general discontent.

8. What does Freud say destructive behavior is directed outward?
(a) Because certain people deserve violence.
(b) To protect the inner self.
(c) Because the state sanctions this.
(d) To participate in the divine of act of creativity through violence.

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

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

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

12. 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 values are determined through desires, which are irrational.
(d) That human psychology will be the same in capitalist and communist societies.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say he can tell that the death instinct exists?

2. What forces does Freud say are balanced in animals, that they are not aware of cultural struggles?

3. Who does Freud say the savage blames if bad things happen to him?

4. What does Freud say is the most pressing problem in the evolution of culture?

5. What does Freud say about restrictions on sexual life if society is to be held together?

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