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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is love’s chief function, according to Freud?
(a) To hold society together.
(b) To renew men’s desire to live.
(c) To resolve differences.
(d) To perpetuate the species.

2. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Compassionate.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Strict.

3. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) Less realistic.
(b) Coarser.
(c) More intense.
(d) Finer.

4. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?
(a) Chronos and Uranus.
(b) Demeter and Zeus.
(c) Pan and Hades.
(d) Eros and Ananke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Freud identify, with holding the Devil responsible for human violence?

2. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

3. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?

4. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?

5. How does Freud characterize the modified kind of love?

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