The most dangerous animal

1. Gellhorn's quote that war was a "malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison" the author agreed except for:

A. prison

B. idiocy

C. Malignant disease

D. None of them

2. Smith, in preface, states that there were two views of war as regards human nature: that we are a "killer ape", bred for the thing; and that we are essentially peaceful animals with a bad cultural construct. Does he take a side?

A. no, he bellieves both are true-and false in some respects

B. no, he believes both are absolutely false

C. yes, he n=believes we are "bred for war"

D. yes, he believes that mistakes in the formation of basic human culture has led to warlike behavior

3. What two things di freud turn to after human sexuality was no longer his driving force for humans?

A. Eros and thanatos

B. Culture and personality

C. Death and taxes

D. sex, drug, and rock and roll

4. What was freud reffering to when he said: "An unpleasant picture come to mind.. Of mills that grind so slowly that people may starve before they get their flour."

A. We can cure war by curing hunger

B. War grinds people under its wheels like a mill does grain to make flour

C. It will take a long time to rid humankind of war

D. We may never make it to a war less society before we kill each other

5.What does smith(the author) mean by "sphexish"?

A. irreversibility

B. unnaturalness

C. deterministic

D. insectoid

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