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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 is the second cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?

2. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?

3. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?

4. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

5. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?

2. What are the three palliative remedies to the unbearable difficulty of life?

3. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?

4. What does Freud say was the consequence of man’s realization that his lot could be improved by his own labors?

5. How does the role of women change, as men began to feel torn between sensual and aim-inhibited love?

6. How does Freud say the love instinct has changed throughout the development of civilization?

7. What misconception does Freud dispel at the end of Chapter 3?

8. What is Freud's response to his friend's feeling?

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

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

Describe Freud’s treatment of women, and their place in his theories. How would Civilization and its Discontents be different if it were written based on a woman’s perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the most important plot points in Civilization and Its Discontents. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

How would you rewrite Civilization and Its Discontents, if you were to adapt it and make it your own. What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

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