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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say people undervalue?
(a) The desire to revenge childhood wrongs.
(b) The value of power and success.
(c) The truly valuable things in life.
(d) The need for a spiritual life.

2. 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 it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(c) That few men have the education to understand the answer.
(d) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.

3. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) The reality of myths and gods.
(b) The source of religious sentiments.
(c) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(d) The danger of disbelief.

4. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Finer.
(c) Coarser.
(d) Less realistic.

5. What does Freud say is the best way to escape from discomfort?
(a) By fulfilling all desires.
(b) By taming nature through science.
(c) By escaping from the society into solitude.
(d) By removing all temptations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud characterize religion?

2. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

3. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?

4. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?

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

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