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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Freedom in the Age of Reformation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fromm identify as the main motive for human behavior?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Individual freedom.
(c) Self-Preservation.
(d) Group belonging.

2. What did man lose as a result of his new-found freedom during the Renaissance?
(a) Loss of security.
(b) Loss of money.
(c) Loss of social class.
(d) Loss of family.

3. 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 needs others to guide him.
(d) Man is disconnected from nature.

4. What changes in a child's relationship to society during the individuation process?
(a) The child becomes more separated from society.
(b) There is no change in this relationship.
(c) Society shuns the child.
(d) The child becomes more included in a group.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychological behavior was the main theme of Hitler's ideology?

2. What political ideology did John Dewey discuss?

3. What cultural time period was Europe moving toward, following the Middle Ages?

4. What biblical myth does Fromm reference?

5. Why would Fromm view the action of man eating the forbidden fruit as a positive act?

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