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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Emergence of the Individual and the Ambiguity of Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political ideology did John Dewey discuss?
(a) Facism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Republicanism.
(d) Communism.

2. According to Freud, how is man best described?
(a) Impressionable.
(b) Pyschotic.
(c) Indecisive.
(d) Anti-social.

3. What happens to primary ties once they are cut?
(a) They can be mended if man gives up his freedom.
(b) They become secondary ties.
(c) Primary ties cannot be cut.
(d) They cannot be mended.

4. What develops as a child grows and primary ties are cut?
(a) The desire for freedom and independence decreases.
(b) The desire for freedom and independence increases.
(c) There is no correlation.
(d) The desire for freedom and independence remains unchanged.

5. According to Fromm's animal kingdom analogy, why is man so helpless at birth?
(a) Man relies on learning in order to adapt to nature.
(b) Man is disconnected from nature.
(c) Man is disconnected from his fellow man.
(d) Man needs others to guide him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What goal does Fromm identify as the "abolition of external domination"?

2. Who described moral isolation in "The Inventor's Suffering"?

3. What social force does man rely on from others?

4. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?

5. Where did the Renaissance begin?

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