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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. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
2. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?
3. What does Freud say is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
4. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Freud say is the end-result of a civilization?
2. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?
3. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?
4. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?
5. What role does dirt play, in civilization, according to Freud?
6. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?
7. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of denying the world, in Freud's account?
9. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?
10. How would you describe Freud’s style of argumentation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What topics would you like to research further, after reading Civilization and Its Discontents. Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on Civilization and Its Discontents.
Essay Topic 2
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for Civilization and Its Discontents? What is the ideal reader for Civilization and Its Discontents likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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