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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud quote the poet Schiller as saying make the world go round?
(a) Fear and loathing.
(b) Bread and circuses.
(c) Hunger and love.
(d) Lust and shame.

2. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?
(a) Make his patients conscious of it.
(b) Bring its demands into speech.
(c) Moderate its demands.
(d) Clarify its demands.

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

4. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?
(a) As inertia.
(b) As conservatism.
(c) As synthesis.
(d) As regression.

5. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it is expressed politically.
(b) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(c) When it takes place in intimate relationships.
(d) When it is turned inward.

6. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(b) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.
(c) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(d) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.

7. What do Freud’s patients not believe, in his account?
(a) His description of their conscious guilt.
(b) His prognosis that guilt will remain with them.
(c) His belief in the salutary effect of guilt.
(d) His diagnosis of unconscious guilt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) The ego.
(b) The beloved.
(c) The father.
(d) Society.

15. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?
(a) In people’s minds.
(b) In every family.
(c) In every patriarch.
(d) In every city.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?

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

4. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?

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

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