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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. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?
(a) A child's need for food.
(b) A child’s need for a father.
(c) A child's need for a mother.
(d) A child's need for God.

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

3. What kinds of examples does Freud offer as examples of modern progress?
(a) Medical improvements.
(b) Transportation improvements.
(c) Improvements in urban infrastructure.
(d) Military improvements.

4. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
(a) That it could not have been in the same state always.
(b) That its development is still not accounted for.
(c) That its development is inexplicable without religion.
(d) That it was probably intact, even in the child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

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

3. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?

4. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?

5. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How would you describe Freud’s style of argumentation?

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

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

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

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