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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 does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
2. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?
3. What does Freud say about the adult ego?
4. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?
5. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Freud say progress has not made modern man any happier?
2. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?
3. What is Freud's response to his friend's feeling?
4. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?
5. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of denying the world, in Freud's account?
7. What does Freud say was the consequence of man’s realization that his lot could be improved by his own labors?
8. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?
9. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?
10. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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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