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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Freud say no one asks?
(a) What would happen if men could tell what the purpose of life is.
(b) What the purpose of the lives of the animals is.
(c) Whether God's existence could be scientifically proven.
(d) What language life’s meaning would need to be expressed in.

2. How does Freud ultimately characterize his friend’s religious feeling?
(a) As an intellectual judgment.
(b) As an irrational faith.
(c) As a raw superstition.
(d) As a mere wish-fulfillment.

3. What paternal quality does Freud attribute to God?
(a) The ability to exceed all attempts at description.
(b) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(c) The ability to understand the needs of the sons of men.
(d) The ability to provide for all of men’s needs.

4. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?
(a) The techniques for avoiding confrontation.
(b) The history of racism.
(c) The power of sexism.
(d) The variety of mankind.

5. What does Freud say we will never overcome?
(a) Society.
(b) Nature.
(c) Language.
(d) Ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?

2. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?

3. What does Freud say are the two forces driving all human activities?

4. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?

5. Which development does Freud say is without prototype?

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