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

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

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

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

5. What does Freud say is the super-ego’s relation to the ego?
(a) It punishes it with physical pain.
(b) It rewards it with feelings of pleasure.
(c) It torments it with feelings of dread.
(d) It reads it with promises of pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say a man feels as a result of a cultural super-ego?

2. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

3. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?

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

5. What does Freud say love seeks for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Freud characterize the opposition of egoism and altruism?

8. How does Freud explain the origin of remorse?

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

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

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