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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of examples does Freud offer as examples of modern progress?
(a) Transportation improvements.
(b) Medical improvements.
(c) Improvements in urban infrastructure.
(d) Military improvements.

2. How does Freud characterize the artist’s joy in creating, relative to other pleasures?
(a) More intense.
(b) Less realistic.
(c) Coarser.
(d) Finer.

3. How does Freud characterize women’s influence on civilization?
(a) Strict.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Compassionate.

4. What does Freud say was the first result of human culture?
(a) Larger numbers of humans.
(b) Smaller communities.
(c) Less interdependence between groups.
(d) More and more violent wars.

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?
(a) That the answer is so simple it will never be believed.
(b) That most answers are really a form of dodging the question.
(c) That it has never been satisfactorily answered.
(d) That few men have the education to understand the answer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say we will never overcome?

2. Why does Freud say people are hostile toward civilization?

3. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?

4. What does Freud say distinguishes the internal from the external, in the infant?

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

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