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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 is the link between religion and childhood?

2. What does Freud say distinguishes happiness from troubles?

3. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?

4. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?

5. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Freud says that the man’s need for religion comes from?

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

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

9. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

10. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Freud does not say as much, but the ability to penetrate unconscious behavior, and bring invisible phenomena to light gives the analyst a real power over patients and in his culture. How does this authority fit within Freud’s explanations of religion, authority, dread and guilt? How does the analyst separate himself—can he separate himself from the fatherly or priestly role?

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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