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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group was responsible for improving the economic position of the worker?
(a) The distant boss.
(b) Guilds.
(c) Big business.
(d) Trade unions.

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

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

4. What church dominated religion during the Middle Ages?
(a) Protestanism.
(b) Judiasim.
(c) Lutheranism.
(d) The Catholic Church.

5. What characteristic identified people during the Middle Ages?
(a) People were identified by their dress.
(b) People were identified by their birthplace.
(c) People were identified by their occupations.
(d) People were not separated by anything during this time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage do animals have over man when entering the world?

2. How does Fromm define selfishness?

3. What is a consequence for man eating the forbidden fruit?

4. Who described the fearful individual as tormented by self-doubt?

5. What group of people fought in battles for freedom, as identified by Fromm?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did capitalism change the individual's role in society?

2. What is the difference between static and dynamic adaptation?

3. How does capitalism affect an individual's freedom, and what are Fromm's criticisms of capitalism?

4. How does an individual's learning further the process of individuation and how does this affect a child's relationship with his mother?

5. What aspects of the medieval system benefited the individual?

6. What are Freud's thoughts on man and society?

7. What new social class developed during the Renaissance and how did it affect their freedom?

8. How did Lutheranism challenge the Catholic Church?

9. How does the biblical story of man's exodus from paradise relate to Fromm's ideas about choice and freedom?

10. What are Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Green's points of view with regards to the individual?

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