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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?
(a) The death drive.
(b) The generative impulse.
(c) The pleasure principle.
(d) The reality principle.

2. Who does Freud say we act like, when we substitute a wish-fulfillment for an unbearable aspect of the world?
(a) The pathological liar.
(b) The artist.
(c) The paranoiac.
(d) The schizophrenic.

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

4. What is society based on, according to Freud?
(a) Individual liberty.
(b) Common sacrifice.
(c) Religious prohibitions.
(d) Development of laws.

5. How does Freud say the ego appears to the id?
(a) As a story.
(b) As an ingredient.
(c) As an obstacle.
(d) As a façade.

6. What feature of culture characterizes it better than any other, according to Freud?
(a) The capacity for empathy and feeling.
(b) The ability to exploit natural resources.
(c) The ability to efficiently control the masses.
(d) The emphasis on intellectual activities.

7. With what realization does Freud say primitive man started to be civilized?
(a) That he was capable of making tools.
(b) That his lot was in his own hands.
(c) That the earth would not provide for him always.
(d) That he was capable of controlling his environment.

8. What objection does Freud raise, to this highest kind of love?
(a) That there is no comparing types of love.
(b) That not all men are worthy of love.
(c) That love changes as its object grows older.
(d) That erotic love surpasses it.

9. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?
(a) A fulfilled aim.
(b) A transcendent aim.
(c) An inhibited aim.
(d) A manifest aim.

10. What supposition does Freud make about this structure’s relationship with the psyche?
(a) That even its present structure is already a ruins.
(b) That a person could decide which layers of history to see.
(c) That its whole history still exists at once.
(d) That its whole past has vanished except for the living moment.

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

12. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?
(a) Pan and Hades.
(b) Eros and Ananke.
(c) Chronos and Uranus.
(d) Demeter and Zeus.

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

14. What does Freud say is the most effective way to influence the body?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Intoxication.
(c) Flagellation.
(d) Abstinence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first cause that increased men’s dissatisfaction with civilization?

2. What does Freud say is the business of women?

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

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

5. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

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