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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 men should make humble obeisance” to?
(a) The high-minded nature of man.
(b) The power of the Devil, or man’s innate destructiveness.
(c) The divine grace of God.
(d) The power of the state to regulate human affairs.

2. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?
(a) In people’s minds.
(b) In every family.
(c) In every patriarch.
(d) In every city.

3. What is Freud surprised that people have overlooked in their ideas about human nature?
(a) The near-universality of the incest taboo in adults.
(b) The dangers associated with libidinal liberty.
(c) The universality of non-erotic aggression.
(d) The fundamental kindness and love of others.

4. What does Freud say people give up in exchange for their membership in society?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Desire.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Remorse.

5. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?
(a) As regression.
(b) As inertia.
(c) As synthesis.
(d) As conservatism.

6. What forces does Freud say are balanced in animals, that they are not aware of cultural struggles?
(a) Lust and seasons.
(b) Environment and instincts.
(c) Danger and hunger.
(d) Function and form.

7. Freud says that people typically do not want to see human beings as innately cruel and destructive—What idea about human do they hold to instead?
(a) That human beings are essentially tormented creatures.
(b) That inequality and violence are the result of exploitation.
(c) That human flaws are the result of bad decisions.
(d) That man is made in God’s benign image.

8. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?
(a) Self-destructive behavior.
(b) Peace and happiness.
(c) A rite of passage into adulthood.
(d) Neurosis.

9. 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) Moderate its demands.
(d) Clarify its demands.

10. What does the conscience take the place of?
(a) The death instinct.
(b) The pleasure principle.
(c) The super-ego.
(d) External authority.

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

12. What does Freud say love seeks for?
(a) Values to love.
(b) Objects.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Answers.

13. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.
(b) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.
(c) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(d) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.

14. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
(a) He says that they are both scapegoats.
(b) He says that Jews are the Devil incarnate.
(c) He says that they are both illusory concepts.
(d) He says that they are both enemies of Christians.

15. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?
(a) He says that it is a mark of early agricultural culture only.
(b) He says that it never existed in human society.
(c) He says that it is coming into existence in the 20th century.
(d) He says that it has not been seen since the hunter-gatherers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say libido intersects with, at a certain point?

2. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?

3. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?

4. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?

5. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

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