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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is the only acceptable goal of marriage?
(a) Increase.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Self-discovery.
(d) Stability.

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

3. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?
(a) He says that it has not been seen since the hunter-gatherers.
(b) He says that it is a mark of early agricultural culture only.
(c) He says that it never existed in human society.
(d) He says that it is coming into existence in the 20th century.

4. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?
(a) Believe because it is transcendent.
(b) Believe because you need your enemies to think this way as well.
(c) Believe because it is absurd.
(d) Believe because the social cost is high if you do not.

5. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?
(a) Analytic theory.
(b) The theory of aggression.
(c) The theory of artistic creativity.
(d) The theory of instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freud describe wickedness?

2. What feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?

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

4. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?

5. What further restriction does Freud say civilization imposes on sexual life?

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