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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 is democratic socialism?
(a) Economic restictions with a free government.
(b) A political and economic system with a central bureaucracy that is supported by the people.
(c) Fascism with economic liberalism.
(d) A political and economic system where the people vote for a dictator.

2. What dual desires did Nazi ideology appeal to?
(a) Power and dominance.
(b) Wealth and knowledge.
(c) Submission and power.
(d) Dominance and submission.

3. How did Hitler feel about Germany?
(a) He loved Germany.
(b) He felt indifferently.
(c) He did not want to see Germany succeed.
(d) He disliked Germany.

4. What practice does Fromm cite evidence that an individual's thoughts could be suggested by someone else?
(a) Pyschotherapy.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Medication.
(d) Electroshock therapy.

5. What is automaton conformity?
(a) The practice of conforming to a hero.
(b) The practice of ignoring society.
(c) The practice of individuals becoming like everyone else.
(d) Conforming only to one's self.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"?

2. What does Fromm argue that leads to man act destructively?

3. What are the consequences for democratic societies when conformity exists?

4. Why is it possible for people to conform without their knowledge?

5. What does Fromm believe each individual is capable of expressing, as discussed in the chapter "Freedom and Democracy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does formal education limit a child's freedom?

2. What is the social function of education?

3. How is an individual's character structure affected by economic and political changes?

4. Why was Nazism so appealing to the lower middle class of Germans?

5. How does Fromm describe masochistic people?

6. What two choices does a person have when confronted by isolation and fear in achieving freedom?

7. How does a democratic society put pressure on individuals to conform?

8. What are the consequences for the individual and society when pressure to conform exists?

9. What is social character?

10. What was life like for the lower, middle class following World War I? How did these conditions impact impacted their submission to Nazism?

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