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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?
(a) Substitutive gratifications.
(b) Intoxicating substances.
(c) Powerful diversions of interest.
(d) Meditation and mysticism.

2. What does Freud say he will study in order to explore the question of how men find meaning in life?
(a) Brain science.
(b) Men’s behavior.
(c) Ancient Greek texts.
(d) Pathology reports.

3. How else does Freud’s friend characterize religion?
(a) A transcendent, unbounded experience.
(b) A mathematical certainty.
(c) A purely personal experience.
(d) An impersonal, out-of-body experience.

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

5. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?
(a) Whether it was a punishment or a gift.
(b) Whether it is renewable or finite.
(c) Why the mother would want to offer it to the infant
(d) Whether it comes from within or from without.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?

2. What does Freud say people undervalue?

3. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?

4. Where does Freud say the religious feeling comes from?

5. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

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