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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 else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.
(b) A purely personal experience.
(c) A transcendent, unbounded experience.
(d) A mathematical certainty.

2. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?
(a) That the earth would not provide for him always.
(b) That his lot was in his own hands.
(c) That he was capable of making tools.
(d) That he was capable of controlling his environment.

3. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Stability.
(c) Increase.
(d) Self-discovery.

4. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) A manifest aim.
(b) A transcendent aim.
(c) A fulfilled aim.
(d) An inhibited aim.

5. What does Freud say is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
(a) Antagonism.
(b) Co-opting.
(c) Mutual exclusion.
(d) Co-ordination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?

2. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?

3. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?

4. What was the social consequence of this realization?

5. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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