Civilization and Its Discontents Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Civilization and Its Discontents Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?
(a) Order.
(b) Religion.
(c) Community.
(d) Justice.

2. What does Freud say is incompatible with civilization?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Religion.
(c) Language.
(d) Sex.

3. What is the first purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?
(a) Domesticating nature for human use.
(b) Increasing the number of members of society.
(c) Protecting human beings from nature.
(d) Improving the economy.

4. Which of the following is NOT a place Freud says suffering comes from?
(a) From the spirit.
(b) From our relations.
(c) From the outer world.
(d) From the body.

5. What does Freud say people wrongly think they want?
(a) Power and success.
(b) Control over the people around them.
(c) Healthy adjustment to their environment.
(d) Inner peace and spiritual development.

6. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?
(a) The reality of myths and gods.
(b) Man’s ability to invent his gods.
(c) The source of religious sentiments.
(d) The danger of disbelief.

7. What does Freud say about happiness as a goal for men’s lives?
(a) It involves men in numerous contradictions.
(b) It is a fleeting experience.
(c) It can be sought in innumerable ways.
(d) It can never be satisfied.

8. What was the social consequence of this realization?
(a) Men started to make offerings to gods.
(b) Men started to work together.
(c) Clans started to fight each other.
(d) Men started to subjugate women.

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

10. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?
(a) Intellectual energy.
(b) Sexual energy.
(c) Familial energy.
(d) Spiritual energy.

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

12. How do lovers, in Freud's account, detach themselves from the danger of encountering pain through love?
(a) By turning their love into art.
(b) By fighting to the death to protect the beloved.
(c) By loving mankind in general.
(d) By keeping their love temporary.

13. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?
(a) Religion.
(b) Purity.
(c) Irreligion.
(d) Religiousness.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second purpose civilization serves, in Freud's account?

2. Which relation does Freud NOT list as evidence of the relations whose regulation constitutes civilization?

3. What word does Freud use to characterize his friend’s religious feeling?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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