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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Fromm cite for the rise of authoritarian leaders like Hitler?
(a) These societies were lacking training in democracy.
(b) People were seeking ways to escape from the responsibility of freedom.
(c) These leaders were cunning and used trickery to get their way.
(d) These leaders were too forceful and its members could not resist.

2. What feeling did the inflation in 1923 Germany and the American crash in 1929 create?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Power.
(d) Freedom.

3. What drives man's struggle for self-promotion?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Isolation.
(d) The lack of love for one's self.

4. What did the social order provide individuals during the Middle Ages?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Money.
(c) Feelings of security and belonging.
(d) Individuality.

5. How did capitalism change the role of individuals?
(a) It turned them into consumers.
(b) It turned them against making money.
(c) It gave them more freedom.
(d) It took away their freedoms.

6. What does Fromm cite as an example of dynamic adaptation?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Psychopathy.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Psychosis.

7. What factor most affected a person's change of identify during the Middle Ages?
(a) His occupation.
(b) His individuality.
(c) HIs family.
(d) His religion.

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

9. In "Freedom-A Psychological Problem," how does Fromm define work?
(a) Work is whatever the individual wants it to be.
(b) Work is anything man does for himself.
(c) Work is anything man does for the group.
(d) Work is concrete and part of an economic system.

10. What organizations were formed during the Renaissance to control prices?
(a) The church.
(b) Monopolies.
(c) Unions.
(d) Guilds.

11. What goal does Fromm identify as the "abolition of external domination"?
(a) Freedom of the individual.
(b) Obedience to a leader.
(c) A harmonious society.
(d) Freedom for the group.

12. Which writer recognized man's lust for power?
(a) Newton.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Machiavelli.

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

14. What is the name of Franz Kafka's work that Fromm references in his book?
(a) Throne.
(b) Amerika.
(c) Castle.
(d) The Trial.

15. According to Fromm, what competing forces does man struggle with?
(a) Fairness and greed.
(b) Individuality and freedom.
(c) Ego and modesty.
(d) Money and loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is man's "biological weakness"?

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

3. How has the role of the "boss" changed in the modern world?

4. According to Fromm's animal kingdom analogy, why is man so helpless at birth?

5. Where did the Renaissance begin?

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