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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 highest state of mind deemed capable for man?
(a) Love of a brother.
(b) Love of a spouse.
(c) Love of humanity.
(d) Love a child.

2. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Theoretical implausibility.
(b) Freedom from ever being proved.
(c) Laughable incompleteness.
(d) Enviable completeness.

3. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As a source of life.
(b) As an opiate.
(c) As an ilusion.
(d) As a scam.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?

2. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

3. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?

4. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?

5. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Freud say is the difference between creating art and enjoying art?

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

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

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

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