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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 this notion is in conflict with?
(a) Man's conscience.
(b) Organized religion.
(c) All of reality.
(d) The history of religion.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What else does Freud say can disturb the distinction between id and ego?
(a) Morbid processes.
(b) Drug-induced experiences.
(c) Transcendent experiences.
(d) Pathological processes.

8. What does Freud say we are typically quite sure of?
(a) The feeling of our own self.
(b) The sensation of falling out of the world into dreams.
(c) The feeling of a personal god.
(d) The feeling of being lost in the world.

9. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?
(a) To control territory in common.
(b) To bind people in groups.
(c) To provide for protection.
(d) To preserve individual freedoms.

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

11. What does Freud say a psychologist is in danger of forgetting?
(a) The variety of mankind.
(b) The history of racism.
(c) The techniques for avoiding confrontation.
(d) The power of sexism.

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

13. Freud says that he sent a friend a copy of his book—how does Freud’s book characterize religion?
(a) As an ilusion.
(b) As a scam.
(c) As a source of life.
(d) As an opiate.

14. How does Freud say “extra-genital forms of satisfaction” are “interdicted”?
(a) As perversions.
(b) As crimes.
(c) As sins.
(d) As taboos.

15. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?
(a) Increasing cleanliness.
(b) Reducing anxiety.
(c) Perfecting God's work.
(d) Reducing the effect of nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?

2. What does Freud say about his friend’s religious feeling?

3. What does Freud say happens to things that are formed in the mind?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the “palliative remedies” men seek out in order to assuage the difficulty of life?

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

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