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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 is the link between religion and childhood?
(a) The religious feeling is a morbid effect in still-immature adults.
(b) The religious feeling is a remnant of the child’s all-encompassing ego.
(c) The religious feeling depends on certain crises in adolescence, or else it vanishes.
(d) The religious feeling is abandoned when the child reaches adolescence.

2. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?
(a) When we retreat.
(b) When we make art.
(c) When we love.
(d) When we enjoy art.

3. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it comes from an external source.
(b) When it originates in pure intuition.
(c) When it is motivated by religious intuition.
(d) When it originates in a powerful need.

4. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From the spirit.
(b) From the outer world.
(c) From our relations.
(d) From the body.

5. What does Freud say men seek in their lives?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Power.
(c) Transcendence.
(d) Grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?

2. What assurance does Freud say men get from religion?

3. What question does Freud say no one asks?

4. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?

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

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