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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say libido intersects with, at a certain point?
(a) Instinctual energy.
(b) Sadism.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) Repression.

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

3. 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 illusory concepts.
(c) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.
(d) He says that they are both scapegoats.

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

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

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

7. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?
(a) Old superstitious ideas have been outgrown in modern times.
(b) Even the Devil must have been created by God.
(c) The Devil would not have any power if he was not part of God.
(d) The Devil is no more provable than God.

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

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

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

11. What does the conscience take the place of?
(a) External authority.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) The death instinct.
(d) The super-ego.

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

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

14. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?
(a) In the desire a child has to return to an earlier state.
(b) In the Oedipal murder of the father.
(c) In the rejection of actual authorities for conscience.
(d) In the fear of the loss of love.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say people give up in exchange for their membership in society?

3. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?

4. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?

5. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

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