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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 physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?
2. What advantage does Freud say friendships have over genital love?
3. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?
4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
5. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Freud, what is the feeling with which his friend resists his arguments about religion?
2. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?
3. How does Freud characterize modern progress?
4. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?
5. What is Freud's response to his friend's feeling?
6. What does Freud say is the relationship between love and aim-inhibited love?
7. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?
8. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?
9. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?
10. What misconception does Freud dispel at the end of Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Evaluate your own reading of Civilization and Its Discontents—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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