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

2. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?
(a) He says that it is coming into existence in the 20th century.
(b) He says that it is a mark of early agricultural culture only.
(c) He says that it has not been seen since the hunter-gatherers.
(d) He says that it never existed in human society.

3. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?
(a) He is appalled by it.
(b) He is comforted by it.
(c) He is blind to it, it is so familiar.
(d) He finds it unnatural.

4. What does Freud say is hidden from the super-ego?
(a) Crimes.
(b) Action.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?
(a) The motivations for sadism.
(b) Neurosis as a reversion to self-love.
(c) Violence as a form of aggression toward the external world.
(d) The need for rites of passage from adolescence into adulthood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?

2. Freud says that it is hard to see Eros and the death instinct unmixed together. Where does he say he might expect to see them?

3. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?

4. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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