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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?
(a) Uselessly beautiful things.
(b) Space exploration.
(c) Scientific progress.
(d) Exploitation of nature.

2. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Strict.
(d) Compassionate.

3. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) As an intellectual judgment.
(b) As an irrational faith.
(c) As a mere wish-fulfillment.
(d) As a raw superstition.

4. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it comes from an external source.
(b) When it is motivated by religious intuition.
(c) When it originates in a powerful need.
(d) When it originates in pure intuition.

5. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Men started to work together.
(b) Men started to subjugate women.
(c) Clans started to fight each other.
(d) Men started to make offerings to gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say we see civilization?

2. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

3. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the advantages of civilization, in Freud's account?

5. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?

2. How would you describe Freud’s style of argumentation?

3. What does Freud say the ordinary man understands by his religion?

4. What role does Freud say genital erotic life plays in the development of the civilized man?

5. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

6. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?

7. What does Freud say are the benefits and dangers of intoxication?

8. When does Freud say this view came into fashion?

9. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?

10. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?

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