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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Humanity's original sin.
(c) Mankind's need for divine grace.
(d) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.

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

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

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

6. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?
(a) Be exiling violent people.
(b) By forcing self-monitoring in the people.
(c) By claiming violence as its sole right.
(d) By authorizing violence for certain uses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Freud say the dangerous and hostile aspects of love are typically attributed to?
(a) Flaws in human nature.
(b) Neurotic self-destructiveness.
(c) A fundamental bipolarity in its nature.
(d) Sublimation of the pleasure principle.

14. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) The pleasure principle.
(b) The reality principle.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Libidinal instincts.

15. What does Freud say love seeks for?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Values to love.
(c) Answers.
(d) Objects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the conscience take the place of?

2. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?

3. What does Freud say seems to be unimportant to the unity of human society?

4. 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?

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

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