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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?
(a) The need for rites of passage from adolescence into adulthood.
(b) Violence as a form of aggression toward the external world.
(c) The motivations for sadism.
(d) Neurosis as a reversion to self-love.

4. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?
(a) Believe because you need your enemies to think this way as well.
(b) Believe because it is transcendent.
(c) Believe because the social cost is high if you do not.
(d) Believe because it is absurd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Freud say a man feels as a result of a cultural super-ego?
(a) Anxiety of conscious.
(b) Remorse for unfulfilled potential.
(c) Desire for escape from society.
(d) Nostalgia for regressive states.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?

2. What does the conscience take the place of?

3. Whom does Freud say he would be wronging, to love his neighbor as himself?

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

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

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