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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. The author refers to the situation in which sacrifice is considered good and self-improvement is not as what?
(a) Moral coercion.
(b) Moral force.
(c) Moral corruption.
(d) Moral obscenity.

2. The author believes that when the ban on physical force is breached, then there is no what?
(a) Political freedom.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Individual freedom.
(d) Freedom of rights.

3. According to Fromm, what intensifies alienation?
(a) Society.
(b) Individualism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

4. Who visits the United States and declares that the superiority of communism is scientifically proven?
(a) Vonderenko.
(b) Gorbachev.
(c) Putin.
(d) Khrushchev.

5. What do liberals and conservatives, according to the author, agree that there is a fight to save?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Families.
(c) Society.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of system is property publicly owned and controlled?

2. Who does the author predict will win when there is a conflict between groups with the same principles?

3. Which does the author predict will win when the principles are clearly defined by the groups hold opposite views?

4. Who writes an encyclical that expresses contempt for capitalism?

5. The author believes that Louis XIV creates a welfare state and ruins what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one definition of capitalism that its supporters might use?

2. How is property dealt with in fascism?

3. What does the pope's encyclical say motivates capitalism?

4. What brings about an intellectual movement's collapse?

5. What does the pope's encyclical say about work?

6. Why, according to the author, do many less-developed countries hate the U.S.?

7. What is idealistic hypocrisy, according to Brown?

8. What does taxation do to the marketplace?

9. What does the debate at the Republican National Convention over the John Birch Society calling Eisenhower a Communist create?

10. How does Fromm characterize man's alienation?

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