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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 the libidinal elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Symptoms.
(c) Obsession.
(d) Remorse.

2. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?
(a) The fear of losing love.
(b) The threat of physical punishment.
(c) The promise of physical pleasure.
(d) The danger of exposure to the elements.

3. What does Freud say is the most pressing problem in the evolution of culture?
(a) Authority.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Guilt.

4. What does Freud say the feeling of guilt expresses?
(a) Despair over having lost freedom to conscience.
(b) Contradictory wishes.
(c) The disapproval of the father.
(d) The revenge of satisfied longings.

5. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?
(a) Analytic theory.
(b) The theory of artistic creativity.
(c) The theory of instincts.
(d) The theory of aggression.

6. What does Freud say is the super-ego’s relation to the ego?
(a) It punishes it with physical pain.
(b) It reads it with promises of pleasure.
(c) It rewards it with feelings of pleasure.
(d) It torments it with feelings of dread.

7. How does Freud characterize the impulse behind he injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself?
(a) Solemnity.
(b) Delight.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Hostility.

8. How does Freud characterize our culture’s methods of preparing young people for their lives as adults?
(a) Like outfitting a warrior in protective armor.
(b) Like training a bear to sing and dance on cue.
(c) Like teaching a tradesman the use of his tools.
(d) Like sending an Artic expedition with summer sweaters.

9. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?
(a) Find the right partner.
(b) Love all humanity.
(c) Make sacrifices.
(d) Remain celibate.

10. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?
(a) Bring its demands into speech.
(b) Make his patients conscious of it.
(c) Clarify its demands.
(d) Moderate its demands.

11. How does Freud say the sense of guilt produced by culture is expressed?
(a) As self-destructive behavior.
(b) As neurosis in sane people.
(c) As artistic creativity.
(d) As a general discontent.

12. What does Freud say is the limit of Eros?
(a) It is purest in one person alone.
(b) It does not work on more than two people at a time.
(c) It comes into focus and clarity when there is a triangle of three.
(d) It is perfected in the abstract love of all society.

13. Whose is the sole relationship that Freud says is not affected by property?
(a) Brother and brother.
(b) Father and son.
(c) Mother and son.
(d) Mother and daughter.

14. What does Freud say intensifies the strength of the conscience?
(a) Experience.
(b) Gratification.
(c) Religion.
(d) Misfortune.

15. Whom does Freud say he would be wronging, to love his neighbor as himself?
(a) Himself.
(b) The stranger.
(c) Those who value his love.
(d) His family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?

2. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?

3. What does Freud say the aggressive elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?

4. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?

5. Freud says that it is hard to see Eros and the death instinct unmixed together. Where does he say he might expect to see them?

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