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

2. What does Freud say his love seems to be, to him?
(a) Something he needs to abide by, no matter what it demands.
(b) Something he needs to control and regulate.
(c) Something he is compelled to give to society.
(d) Something he can give according to his whim.

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

4. What does Freud say is the relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?
(a) He says they are opposed.
(b) He says they are the same.
(c) He says that they are complementary.
(d) He says that it is harder to love your neighbor than your enemy.

5. What is Freud’s first reaction to the notion that one should “love they neighbor as thyself”?
(a) He finds it unnatural.
(b) He is comforted by it.
(c) He is appalled by it.
(d) He is blind to it, it is so familiar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?

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

3. How does Freud characterize the relationship between Eros and the death principle?

4. What does Freud say people give up in exchange for their membership in society?

5. What does Freud say a neighbor tempts a man to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What goal does Freud say the instincts are leading man toward?

2. How does Freud say society uses men’s aggression productively?

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

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

5. What conclusion does Freud’s discussion of the Golden Rule lead him to make about human nature?

6. In what regard to human beings differ from animals, in Freud's account?

7. How, according to Freud, do other people figure differently in sensual love and social love?

8. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

9. How does Freud characterize the opposition of egoism and altruism?

10. What is the role of misfortune in the formation of the super-ego, according to Freud?

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