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

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

3. What does Freud say about restrictions on sexual life if society is to be held together?
(a) They are not always necessary.
(b) They inhibit social cohesion.
(c) They are necessary.
(d) They can be replaced by other restrictions.

4. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?
(a) Loathing directed toward the self.
(b) Forbidden longing for the mother.
(c) Anticipation of pleasure.
(d) Ambivalence toward the father.

5. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?
(a) Individual development.
(b) Rites of passage.
(c) Social ties.
(d) Corrective institutions.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?

4. Which does Freud say comes first?

5. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Freud explain the origin of remorse?

9. In what three spheres does Freud see the same interplay between Eros and death playing out?

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

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