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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 does Freud say this notion is in conflict with?
(a) The history of religion.
(b) Man's conscience.
(c) All of reality.
(d) Organized religion.

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

3. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?
(a) The relation between family members.
(b) The relation between man and animal.
(c) The relations between neighbors.
(d) The relationship between husband and wife.

4. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?
(a) The ability to exploit natural resources.
(b) The ability to efficiently control the masses.
(c) The capacity for empathy and feeling.
(d) The emphasis on intellectual activities.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?

3. What was the social consequence of this realization?

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

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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