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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. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?
(a) As regression.
(b) As synthesis.
(c) As conservatism.
(d) As inertia.

2. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Neurosis.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Survival.

3. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Delight.
(c) Solemnity.
(d) Hostility.

4. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?
(a) It is internalized.
(b) It is dissipated.
(c) It is organized.
(d) It is externalized.

5. Which does Freud say comes first?
(a) Desire for punishment.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Consciousness of guilt.
(d) Conscious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?

3. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

4. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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