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

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

3. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It causes regrets in sober men.
(c) It wastes valuable energies.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

4. How does Freud characterize religion?
(a) Transcendent.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Wise.
(d) Infantile.

5. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?
(a) Sexual objects.
(b) Concubines.
(c) Helpmeets.
(d) Life partners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?

2. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?

3. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

4. What does Freud compare civilization to?

5. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

9. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?

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

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