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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Freud say was the “most maiming wound ever inflicted throughout the ages on the erotic life of man”?
(a) The taboo on bestiality.
(b) The taboo on endogamy.
(c) The taboo on incest.
(d) The taboo on exogamy.

3. What does Freud say people undervalue?
(a) The value of power and success.
(b) The truly valuable things in life.
(c) The desire to revenge childhood wrongs.
(d) The need for a spiritual life.

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

5. When does Freud say we are most susceptible to suffering?
(a) When we retreat.
(b) When we make art.
(c) When we love.
(d) When we enjoy art.

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

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

8. When can a feeling be a source of energy, according to Freud?
(a) When it comes from an external source.
(b) When it is motivated by religious intuition.
(c) When it originates in pure intuition.
(d) When it originates in a powerful need.

9. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?
(a) It is destructive.
(b) It causes regrets in sober men.
(c) It wastes valuable energies.
(d) It wastes valuable energies.

10. What does Freud say dwellings substitute for?
(a) The first cradle.
(b) Society itself.
(c) The mother’s womb.
(d) Society's laws.

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

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

13. When does fate lose its power over men, according to Freud?
(a) When man takes pleasure from self-renunciation.
(b) When man takes pleasure from mental work.
(c) When man takes pleasure from religious feelings.
(d) When man takes physical pleasure from his environment.

14. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?
(a) An mutual non-aggression agreement between brothers.
(b) The mother’s desire to keep her progeny close to her.
(c) A taboo surrounding women, particularly during menstruation.
(d) An unapproachable authority of the father.

15. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?
(a) Irreligion.
(b) Purity.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

2. How does Freud characterize religion?

3. What does Freud say breaks the boundary between id and ego?

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

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

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