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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By turning their love into art.
(b) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(c) By keeping their love temporary.
(d) By loving mankind in general.

2. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?
(a) Sexual energy.
(b) Spiritual energy.
(c) Intellectual energy.
(d) Familial energy.

3. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(b) It is a fleeting experience.
(c) It can never be satisfied.
(d) It can be sought in innumerable ways.

4. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.
(b) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(c) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(d) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.

5. What does the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?
(a) The motivations for sadism.
(b) Violence as a form of aggression toward the external world.
(c) The need for rites of passage from adolescence into adulthood.
(d) Neurosis as a reversion to self-love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?

2. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?

3. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

4. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?

5. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?

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