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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 distinguishes happiness from troubles?
(a) We view it subjectively.
(b) We take it for granted.
(c) We are always surprised by it.
(d) We view it objectively.

2. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?
(a) More and more violent wars.
(b) Smaller communities.
(c) Less interdependence between groups.
(d) Larger numbers of humans.

3. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Nauseating.
(b) Laughable.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Oceanic.

4. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By taming nature through science.
(b) By removing all temptations.
(c) By fulfilling all desires.
(d) By escaping from the society into solitude.

5. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?
(a) Scientific progress.
(b) Space exploration.
(c) Exploitation of nature.
(d) Uselessly beautiful things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is society based on, according to Freud?

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?

3. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Freud say this view came into fashion?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?

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

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

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

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