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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 libido intersects with, at a certain point?
(a) The reality principle.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Repression.
(d) Instinctual energy.

2. What does Freud say the dangerous and hostile aspects of love are typically attributed to?
(a) Sublimation of the pleasure principle.
(b) Flaws in human nature.
(c) Neurotic self-destructiveness.
(d) A fundamental bipolarity in its nature.

3. What effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They catalyze it.
(b) They threaten to dissolve it.
(c) They build it up.
(d) They define its boundaries.

4. How does Freud distinguish between the individual trend in civilization, and the cultural trend in civilization?
(a) The Eros instinct and the death principle.
(b) Egotistic and altruistic.
(c) Dependent and independent.
(d) Immoral and ethical.

5. Freud says that it is hard to see Eros and the death instinct unmixed together. Where does he say he might expect to see them?
(a) Infants.
(b) Religious types.
(c) Extreme cases.
(d) Neurotics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

2. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?

3. What does Freud say a man feels as a result of a cultural super-ego?

4. Where does Freud say conscience originates?

5. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what regard to human beings differ from animals, in Freud's account?

2. How does Freud characterize the mindset of people who do not appreciate the reality he is describing, of hostility as a fundamental force of human nature?

3. What difficulty does Freud say he would expect in any analysis that sought to analyze society’s neuroses?

4. In what three spheres does Freud see the same interplay between Eros and death playing out?

5. How does Freud characterize the emergence of the death instinct?

6. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

7. What goal does Freud say the instincts are leading man toward?

8. In what way does Freud say that primitive man was indeed happier than civilized man?

9. What is the role of misfortune in the formation of the super-ego, according to Freud?

10. What does Freud say society does in order to accommodate the traits he sees in human nature?

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