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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 is a consequence for man eating the forbidden fruit?
(a) Man is at peace with nature.
(b) Man lost his family.
(c) Man lost freedom.
(d) There is discord between man and nature.

2. Which of the following did man NOT have to face while living in Eden?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Work.
(d) Choice

3. What is static adaptation?
(a) Adaptation that requires no change.
(b) When an existing structure is only partially changed.
(c) The adoption of a new habit.
(d) The habit is modified but not changed completely.

4. What psychological approach did Fromm take with his work?
(a) Social psychological.
(b) Psychoanalytical.
(c) Medical.
(d) Physiological.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Fromm cite as an example of dynamic adaptation?

4. Which writer recognized man's lust for power?

5. According to Freud, how is man best described?

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