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

2. What does Freud say he seeks in scientific work?
(a) Elaboration of the variations of possible truths.
(b) Simplification without ignoring facts.
(c) Fulfillment of ideas and hypotheses.
(d) New ways of describing familiar facts.

3. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?
(a) To hold society together.
(b) To perpetuate the species.
(c) To renew men’s desire to live.
(d) To resolve differences.

4. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(b) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.
(c) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(d) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.

5. Who does Freud say takes the place of mother and father, as people grow up?
(a) The leaders of society.
(b) Once's instincts.
(c) Society as a whole.
(d) One's offspring.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say he can tell that the death instinct exists?

2. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?

3. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?

4. What effect do violent men have on society?

5. What does Freud say the feeling of guilt expresses?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Freud mean when he says that hunger and love make the world go around?

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

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

5. How does Freud characterize the super-ego’s cultural function?

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

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

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

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

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

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