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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objection does Freud raise, to this highest kind of love?
(a) That erotic love surpasses it.
(b) That there is no comparing types of love.
(c) That not all men are worthy of love.
(d) That love changes as its object grows older.

2. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?
(a) That he was capable of controlling his environment.
(b) That the earth would not provide for him always.
(c) That his lot was in his own hands.
(d) That he was capable of making tools.

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

4. What does Freud say is the relation between society and the individual’s desire for freedom?
(a) Co-opting.
(b) Co-ordination.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Mutual exclusion.

5. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As a source of life.
(b) As an opiate.
(c) As a scam.
(d) As an ilusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?

2. How does Freud characterize religion?

3. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?

4. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?

5. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?

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