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

2. What does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) The history of religion.
(b) Man's conscience.
(c) All of reality.
(d) Organized religion.

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

4. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
(a) The Egyptian pyramids.
(b) The crypts in Paris.
(c) The ancient city of Rome.
(d) The Parthenon.

5. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.
(b) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(c) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.
(d) When man takes pleasure from mental work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

2. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?

3. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

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

5. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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