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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 does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?
(a) Increasing cleanliness.
(b) Reducing anxiety.
(c) Perfecting God's work.
(d) Reducing the effect of nature.

2. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on endogamy.
(b) The taboo on incest.
(c) The taboo on bestiality.
(d) The taboo on exogamy.

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Whether it is renewable or finite.
(b) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(c) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(d) Whether it comes from within or from without.

4. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(b) It can never be satisfied.
(c) It is a fleeting experience.
(d) It can be sought in innumerable ways.

5. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?
(a) To provide for protection.
(b) To preserve individual freedoms.
(c) To control territory in common.
(d) To bind people in groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize writing?

2. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

3. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?

4. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

5. What does Freud say we will never overcome?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?

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

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

4. What does Freud say is the relationship between love and aim-inhibited love?

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

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

7. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?

8. How does Freud characterize the roles of Eros and Ananke in the development of civilization?

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

10. What role does dirt play, in civilization, according to Freud?

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