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

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

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Whether it is renewable or finite.
(b) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(c) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(d) Whether it comes from within or from without.

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

5. What is society based on, according to Freud?
(a) Common sacrifice.
(b) Individual liberty.
(c) Religious prohibitions.
(d) Development of laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?

3. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

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

5. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

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

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

5. What does Freud say the ordinary man understands by his religion?

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

7. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?

8. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

9. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?

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

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