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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 does Freud characterize religion?

2. What does Freud say is the first act of civilization?

3. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?

4. What does Freud say he has a hard time believing about his friend’s experience?

5. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Freud say progress has not made modern man any happier?

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

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

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

6. What does Freud say the ordinary man understands by his religion?

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

8. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

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

10. What does Freud say are the benefits and dangers of intoxication?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

According to Freud, the problem of guilt is the biggest problem facing the evolution of culture. How has this ‘problem’ been addressed, and how has it led to the further evolution of civilization? Using an example from contemporary culture, find the mechanisms Freud is talking about in.

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