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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 people wrongly think they want?
(a) Inner peace and spiritual development.
(b) Control over the people around them.
(c) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(d) Power and success.

2. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?
(a) Demeter and Zeus.
(b) Pan and Hades.
(c) Eros and Ananke.
(d) Chronos and Uranus.

3. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He has known it in moments.
(b) He cannot find it in himself.
(c) He knows it from his reading.
(d) He has seen it in others.

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

5. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?
(a) The religious feeling depends on certain crises in adolescence, or else it vanishes.
(b) The religious feeling is a morbid effect in still-immature adults.
(c) The religious feeling is a remnant of the child’s all-encompassing ego.
(d) The religious feeling is abandoned when the child reaches adolescence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?

2. What does Freud say is the standard for sexual life in a civilization?

3. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?

4. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

5. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud say instincts react when they are resisted through intoxication or through other forms of avoidance?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Freud use the city of Rome as a metaphor for?

8. What is the importance of the argument about conservation in the mind?

9. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

10. What are the three palliative remedies to the unbearable difficulty of life?

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