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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. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?
(a) In every family.
(b) In every city.
(c) In people’s minds.
(d) In every patriarch.

2. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?
(a) They are impatient.
(b) They are creative.
(c) They are ill at ease.
(d) They are content.

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

4. How does Freud describe wickedness?
(a) As that which should not be done.
(b) As that which others have been punished for.
(c) As that which has been punished in the past.
(d) As that which is forbidden.

5. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) The beloved.
(b) Society.
(c) The father.
(d) The ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?

2. What does the destructive instinct provide when it is harnessed, according to Freud?

3. What effect do violent men have on society?

4. How does Freud characterize our culture’s methods of preparing young people for their lives as adults?

5. What do Freud’s patients not believe, in his account?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do sadism and masochism reveal the interplay between Eros and death instincts, in Freud's account?

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

3. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

4. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

5. What services does Freud say the Jewish people served for the Aryans in Europe?

6. How pervasive does Freud say the human sentiments about property are?

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

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

9. How does Freud say society uses men’s aggression productively?

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

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