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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 effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They build it up.
(b) They threaten to dissolve it.
(c) They catalyze it.
(d) They define its boundaries.

2. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?
(a) A rite of passage into adulthood.
(b) Self-destructive behavior.
(c) Peace and happiness.
(d) Neurosis.

3. What does Freud say intensifies the strength of the conscience?
(a) Misfortune.
(b) Religion.
(c) Experience.
(d) Gratification.

4. How does Freud distinguish between the individual trend in civilization, and the cultural trend in civilization?
(a) Immoral and ethical.
(b) Dependent and independent.
(c) The Eros instinct and the death principle.
(d) Egotistic and altruistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say men should make humble obeisance” to?

2. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?

3. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?

4. What does Freud say about restrictions on sexual life if society is to be held together?

5. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?

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

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