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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 is the limit of Eros?
(a) It comes into focus and clarity when there is a triangle of three.
(b) It does not work on more than two people at a time.
(c) It is purest in one person alone.
(d) It is perfected in the abstract love of all society.

2. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it is turned inward.
(b) When it is expressed politically.
(c) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(d) When it takes place in intimate relationships.

3. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?
(a) The universality of non-erotic aggression.
(b) The near-universality of the incest taboo in adults.
(c) The dangers associated with libidinal liberty.
(d) The fundamental kindness and love of others.

4. Where does Freud ultimately test and validate his conclusions about guilt and remorse?
(a) Clinical observation.
(b) Extensive research.
(c) Biblical literature.
(d) Poetry and the arts.

5. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?
(a) The divine grace of God.
(b) The high-minded nature of man.
(c) The power of the state to regulate human affairs.
(d) The power of the Devil, or man’s innate destructiveness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?

3. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?

4. What does Freud say destructive behavior is directed outward?

5. Who does Freud say takes the place of mother and father, as people grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. How does Freud characterize the traditional view of the extremes of pleasure and pain in love?

5. What insights does Freud offer into the value of communism?

6. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

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

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

9. How does Freud explain the origin of remorse?

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

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