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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 a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?

2. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

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

4. How does Freud say his friend experiences religion?

5. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beauty as a consolation for the difficulties of reality?

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

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

7. What does Freud say is the end-result of a civilization?

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

9. How does Freud say instincts react when they are resisted through intoxication or through other forms of avoidance?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Freud's account, guilt and the super-ego require sacrifices in order to be allayed. Where in contemporary culture do you find people making sacrifices, and what feelings are they assuaging by making them?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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