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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?
(a) Social ties.
(b) Individual development.
(c) Rites of passage.
(d) Corrective institutions.

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

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

4. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?
(a) In the fear of the loss of love.
(b) In the Oedipal murder of the father.
(c) In the desire a child has to return to an earlier state.
(d) In the rejection of actual authorities for conscience.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?
(a) Ambivalence toward the father.
(b) Forbidden longing for the mother.
(c) Loathing directed toward the self.
(d) Anticipation of pleasure.

11. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?
(a) Peace and happiness.
(b) Self-destructive behavior.
(c) Neurosis.
(d) A rite of passage into adulthood.

12. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?
(a) The question of sexual desire.
(b) The question of intellectual attraction.
(c) The question of the other’s worth.
(d) The question of the heart's capacity.

13. What forces does Freud say are balanced in animals, that they are not aware of cultural struggles?
(a) Environment and instincts.
(b) Danger and hunger.
(c) Lust and seasons.
(d) Function and form.

14. How does Freud characterize the relationship between Eros and the death principle?
(a) He says they are mutually beneficial.
(b) He says that they merge in marriage.
(c) He says that they merge in communal ritual.
(d) He says that they are irreconcilable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?

2. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?

3. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?

4. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?

5. What does Freud say the dangerous and hostile aspects of love are typically attributed to?

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