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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 was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on exogamy.
(b) The taboo on bestiality.
(c) The taboo on incest.
(d) The taboo on endogamy.

2. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
(a) As a story.
(b) As an ingredient.
(c) As an obstacle.
(d) As a façade.

3. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(c) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.
(d) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.

4. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Regulating relations between men.
(b) Liberating man from the shackles of nature.
(c) Making it possible to improve medical science.
(d) Reducing ignorance and prejudice.

5. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?
(a) Purification and perfection of the body.
(b) Power and control over nature.
(c) Pleasure and avoidance of pain.
(d) Profit and pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

2. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?

3. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?

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

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 are the advantages and disadvantages of beauty as a consolation for the difficulties of reality?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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