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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Freud say this teaching omits?
(a) The question of the other’s worth.
(b) The question of sexual desire.
(c) The question of intellectual attraction.
(d) The question of the heart's capacity.

2. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?
(a) Specialized knowledge.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Exceptional cases.
(d) Uncommon events.

3. How does Freud characterize the relationship between Eros and the death principle?
(a) He says that they merge in communal ritual.
(b) He says that they are irreconcilable.
(c) He says that they merge in marriage.
(d) He says they are mutually beneficial.

4. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
(a) Libidinal instincts.
(b) Sadism.
(c) The reality principle.
(d) The pleasure principle.

5. What explanation does Freud offer for believing in loving his enemies?
(a) Believe because you need your enemies to think this way as well.
(b) Believe because it is absurd.
(c) Believe because the social cost is high if you do not.
(d) Believe because it is transcendent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Christianity offer to purge all humanity of guilt?

2. How does Freud say the sense of guilt produced by culture is expressed?

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

4. What does Freud say his love seems to be, to him?

5. What does Freud say is the result of any cessation of the external violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what three spheres does Freud see the same interplay between Eros and death playing out?

2. What does Freud mean when he says that hunger and love make the world go around?

3. What insights does Freud offer into the value of communism?

4. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?

5. How does Freud characterize the traditional view of the extremes of pleasure and pain in love?

6. What does Freud say society does in order to accommodate the traits he sees in human nature?

7. What difficulty does Freud say he would expect in any analysis that sought to analyze society’s neuroses?

8. How does Freud describe the function of narcissism in the ego?

9. How do sadism and masochism reveal the interplay between Eros and death instincts, in Freud's account?

10. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

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