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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?
(a) The theory of artistic creativity.
(b) Analytic theory.
(c) The theory of aggression.
(d) The theory of instincts.

3. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) He has seen it in others.
(b) He knows it from his reading.
(c) He has known it in moments.
(d) He cannot find it in himself.

4. 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 it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(d) That few men have the education to understand the answer.

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?
(a) Art.
(b) Laws.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

2. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

3. How does Freud characterize females in ‘ape-pre-history’?

4. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?

5. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

(see the answer key)

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