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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 writing?
(a) As an externalization of the voice of the absent.
(b) As a record of God's thoughts.
(c) As an exteriorization of the inner voice.
(d) As a manifestation of the unconscious.

2. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The generative impulse.
(b) The death drive.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) The pleasure principle.

3. 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.

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Finer.
(c) Coarser.
(d) Less realistic.

5. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(b) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.
(c) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(d) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

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

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

4. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

5. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

3. What misconception does Freud dispel at the end of Chapter 3?

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

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

6. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

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

8. Why does Freud say progress has not made modern man any happier?

9. What does Freud say is the relationship between love and aim-inhibited love?

10. Where does Freud says that the man’s need for religion comes from?

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