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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?

2. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

3. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?

4. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

5. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?

2. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?

3. How does Freud characterize the roles of Eros and Ananke in the development of civilization?

4. What role does dirt play, in civilization, according to Freud?

5. What does Freud say is the relationship between love and aim-inhibited love?

6. What does Freud say is the difference between creating art and enjoying art?

7. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?

8. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?

9. When does Freud say this view came into fashion?

10. What does Freud use the city of Rome as a metaphor for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Civilization and Its Discontents. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

When is Civilization and Its Discontents most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

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