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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
(a) As a façade.
(b) As an obstacle.
(c) As an ingredient.
(d) As a story.

2. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The reality principle.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) The generative impulse.
(d) The death drive.

3. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?
(a) The infant see unpleasant experiences as internal.
(b) The infant sees all pleasure as coming in from the outside.
(c) The infant treats whatever is unpleasant as external.
(d) The infant gets to use these categories creatively.

4. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?
(a) Drug-induced experiences.
(b) Transcendent experiences.
(c) Pathological processes.
(d) Morbid processes.

5. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) Nauseating.
(b) Laughable.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Oceanic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical structure does Freud compare the psyche to?

2. What do we expect labor to be devoted to, in a civilized country, according to Freud?

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

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

5. How does Freud characterize writing?

(see the answer key)

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