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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Freud say characterizes religion’s explanations?
(a) Laughable incompleteness.
(b) Freedom from ever being proved.
(c) Theoretical implausibility.
(d) Enviable completeness.

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

3. How does Freud say we see civilization?
(a) As another nature.
(b) As our haven from suffering.
(c) As an externalization of ourselves.
(d) As part of our suffering.

4. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?
(a) Because it makes promises it cannot fulfill.
(b) Because it is antagonistic to nature.
(c) Because it is an obstacle to religion.
(d) Because it is imposed from without.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?

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

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

4. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?

5. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

(see the answer key)

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