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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?
(a) Remain celibate.
(b) Make sacrifices.
(c) Love all humanity.
(d) Find the right partner.

4. What does Freud say seems to be unimportant to the unity of human society?
(a) Individual maturation.
(b) Individual happiness.
(c) Collective wealth.
(d) Technological progress.

5. 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 inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.
(b) That man is made in God’s benign image.
(c) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.
(d) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.

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

7. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?
(a) Lust.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Envy.
(d) Shame.

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

9. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?
(a) Control over Nature.
(b) Exploitation of Nature.
(c) Control over people in whom it is unharnessed.
(d) Indifference to other people’s sufferings.

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

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

12. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?
(a) It is internalized.
(b) It is dissipated.
(c) It is organized.
(d) It is externalized.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?

2. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?

3. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

4. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?

5. What does Freud say needs to be taken into account when considering the love one should have for neighbors and enemies?

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