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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 was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Clans started to fight each other.
(b) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(c) Men started to subjugate women.
(d) Men started to work together.

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

3. How does Freud say we see civilization?
(a) As our haven from suffering.
(b) As part of our suffering.
(c) As another nature.
(d) As an externalization of ourselves.

4. What does Freud compare civilization to?
(a) A permissive regime.
(b) A repressive regime.
(c) A diplomatic mission.
(d) A form of market haggling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the link between religion and childhood?

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?

3. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?

4. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

5. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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