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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 the conscience take the place of?
(a) The pleasure principle.
(b) The death instinct.
(c) External authority.
(d) The super-ego.

2. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?
(a) He says that they are complementary.
(b) He says they are opposed.
(c) He says they are the same.
(d) He says that it is harder to love your neighbor than your enemy.

3. Who does Freud say the savage blames if bad things happen to him?
(a) Himself.
(b) His fetish.
(c) His fate.
(d) His society.

4. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?
(a) Others who are despised.
(b) Prohibitions on property ownership.
(c) Others who are not yet initiated.
(d) Regulations on sexual behavior

5. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?
(a) By forcing self-monitoring in the people.
(b) By authorizing violence for certain uses.
(c) Be exiling violent people.
(d) By claiming violence as its sole right.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Freud say man is to his fellow man?

2. Whose is the sole relationship that Freud says is not affected by property?

3. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?

4. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?

5. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?

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

4. What resistance does Freud offer to the notion that he should love his neighbor as himself?

5. What does Freud mean when he says that the problem of guilt as “the most important problem in the evolution of civilization”?

6. How does Freud describe the function of narcissism in the ego?

7. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

8. What conclusion does Freud’s discussion of the Golden Rule lead him to make about human nature?

9. How, according to Freud, do other people figure differently in sensual love and social love?

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

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