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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 it can be interpolated from the Great War.
(c) He says that there is only a theoretical notion.
(d) He says that it is a background to Eros.

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

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

4. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?
(a) Uncommon events.
(b) Exceptional cases.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Specialized knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Freud distinguish between the individual trend in civilization, and the cultural trend in civilization?
(a) The Eros instinct and the death principle.
(b) Dependent and independent.
(c) Egotistic and altruistic.
(d) Immoral and ethical.

11. What does Freud say he seeks in scientific work?
(a) Simplification without ignoring facts.
(b) Fulfillment of ideas and hypotheses.
(c) New ways of describing familiar facts.
(d) Elaboration of the variations of possible truths.

12. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?
(a) To resolve differences.
(b) To hold society together.
(c) To perpetuate the species.
(d) To renew men’s desire to live.

13. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?
(a) The fear of losing love.
(b) The danger of exposure to the elements.
(c) The threat of physical punishment.
(d) The promise of physical pleasure.

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

15. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Neurosis.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose is the sole relationship that Freud says is not affected by property?

2. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?

3. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?

4. What does Freud say the aggressive elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?

5. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?

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