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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(b) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(c) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(d) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.
2. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It causes regrets in sober men.
(c) It wastes valuable energies.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.
3. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Powerful diversions of interest.
(b) Intoxicating substances.
(c) Substitutive gratifications.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.
4. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?
(a) Specialized knowledge.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Uncommon events.
(d) Exceptional cases.
5. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
(a) He says that they are both enemies of Christians.
(b) He says that they are both illusory concepts.
(c) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.
(d) He says that they are both scapegoats.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Freud say is the business of women?
2. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
3. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
4. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?
5. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?
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