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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people fought in battles for freedom, as identified by Fromm?
(a) The oppressed.
(b) The Middle Class.
(c) The church.
(d) The wealthy.

2. What economic related problem led to feelings of individual powerlessness?
(a) Trade unions.
(b) High taxes.
(c) Guilds.
(d) Unemployment.

3. What war do many consider to be ultimate victory for freedom, according to Fromm?
(a) World War II.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) World War I.

4. What social force does man rely on from others?
(a) Civility.
(b) Love.
(c) Protection.
(d) Cooperation.

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

6. What religions attracted the middle class during the Renaissance?
(a) Hindu and Buddism.
(b) Lutheranism and Calvinism.
(c) Catholicism and Islam.
(d) Judaism and Catholicism.

7. Why did the middle class see an increase in white-collar workers?
(a) Political reform.
(b) Increased education.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Big business expansion.

8. What did the Church during the Middle Ages promise people who accepted guilt for their sins?
(a) Forgiveness and unconditional love.
(b) The church promised wealth.
(c) The church did not do anything.
(d) Disdain for sin.

9. Which great thinker does Fromm NOT credit in his book?
(a) Marx.
(b) Pavlov.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Freud.

10. What forces does an individual need freedom from in order to be a free individual?
(a) Freedom from thinking and self.
(b) Freedom from family and friends.
(c) Freedom from self and family.
(d) Freedom from authority and outside constraints.

11. Why was medieval man in bondage?
(a) He was bound to the church.
(b) He was still bound by primary ties.
(c) He was not self-aware.
(d) He was not part of a group.

12. Who is the servant of capitalism?
(a) Society.
(b) Man.
(c) The church.
(d) Sin.

13. What biblical myth does Fromm reference?
(a) Man's explusion from paradise.
(b) Noah's Ark.
(c) Joseph and his brothers.
(d) Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.

14. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Working class domination.
(c) Trade.
(d) Laissez-faire.

15. Who described moral isolation in "The Inventor's Suffering"?
(a) Freud.
(b) Fromm.
(c) Marx.
(d) Balzac.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did capitalism change the role of individuals?

2. What is often a negative result of man's freedom?

3. What does Fromm believe is the greatest assertion of individuality?

4. What characteristic identified people during the Middle Ages?

5. What factor most affected a person's change of identify during the Middle Ages?

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