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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?
(a) Abstinence.
(b) Abortion.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) Chastity.

2. What does Freud say he seeks in scientific work?
(a) Simplification without ignoring facts.
(b) Fulfillment of ideas and hypotheses.
(c) New ways of describing familiar facts.
(d) Elaboration of the variations of possible truths.

3. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(b) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(c) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(d) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.

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

5. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Peace and happiness.
(c) Self-destructive behavior.
(d) A rite of passage into adulthood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?

3. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?

5. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

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