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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 is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Improving the economy.
(b) Protecting human beings from nature.
(c) Domesticating nature for human use.
(d) Increasing the number of members of society.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Powerful diversions of interest.
(b) Substitutive gratifications.
(c) Meditation and mysticism.
(d) Intoxicating substances.

3. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?
(a) Relentless and possessive.
(b) Peaceful and pure.
(c) Unchangeable and tender.
(d) Alternatively tender and stormy.

4. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
(a) They are not exclusive.
(b) They allow families to merge.
(c) They preserve the freedom of the parties.
(d) They provide the basis for business ventures.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?

3. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

5. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of denying the world, in Freud's account?

5. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

6. What is Freud's response to his friend's feeling?

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

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

9. How does Freud say the love instinct has changed throughout the development of civilization?

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

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