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

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

3. What does Freud say destructive behavior is directed outward?
(a) To participate in the divine of act of creativity through violence.
(b) Because the state sanctions this.
(c) Because certain people deserve violence.
(d) To protect the inner self.

4. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) The ego.
(b) The father.
(c) The beloved.
(d) Society.

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

6. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?
(a) Dread of the super-ego.
(b) Longing for fulfillment.
(c) Fear of the loss of love.
(d) Desire for non-existence.

7. What does Freud say accompanies destructive behavior?
(a) An out-of-body sensation.
(b) Profound pleasure.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Moral indifference.

8. What does Freud say seems to be unimportant to the unity of human society?
(a) Individual maturation.
(b) Individual happiness.
(c) Technological progress.
(d) Collective wealth.

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

10. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?
(a) By offering men transubstantiation through Communion.
(b) By redeeming sin through Christ’s sacrifice.
(c) By the ritual of confession of sins.
(d) By binding men and women through marriage.

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

12. What effect do violent men have on society?
(a) They build it up.
(b) They threaten to dissolve it.
(c) They catalyze it.
(d) They define its boundaries.

13. What does Freud say needs to be taken into account when considering the love one should have for neighbors and enemies?
(a) Humankind’s innate trustfulness.
(b) Humanity's original sin.
(c) Mankind's need for divine grace.
(d) Man's innate aggression.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which does Freud say comes first?

2. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?

3. How does Freud describe wickedness?

4. What does the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?

5. Who does Freud say the savage blames if bad things happen to him?

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