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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. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?
(a) The ability to communicate.
(b) The construction of houses.
(c) The development of weapons.
(d) The discovery of fire.

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

3. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(c) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(d) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.

4. What does Freud say is the business of women?
(a) The interests of the family.
(b) The business of community.
(c) The extension of the family
(d) The work of religion.

5. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?
(a) An mutual non-aggression agreement between brothers.
(b) A taboo surrounding women, particularly during menstruation.
(c) The mother’s desire to keep her progeny close to her.
(d) An unapproachable authority of the father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

2. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

3. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?

4. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?

5. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

3. What does Freud say was the consequence of man’s realization that his lot could be improved by his own labors?

4. How does the role of women change, as men began to feel torn between sensual and aim-inhibited love?

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

6. What does Freud say is the end-result of a civilization?

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

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

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

10. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?

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