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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Emergence of the Individual and the Ambiguity of Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is individuation?
(a) When an individual loses his identity to the group.
(b) The process by which the group singles out an individual.
(c) A time when an individual gives up his individuality.
(d) The growing process of the individual.

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

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

4. Why does an individual adapt to a new situation and habit?
(a) They adapt to a situation out of choice.
(b) They adapt when a new habit cannot be formed.
(c) They adapt whn an old habit is broken in favor of a new one.
(d) They adapt to a new situation out of necessity to a situation.

5. What is often a negative result of man's freedom?
(a) Greed.
(b) There is no negative result.
(c) Unhappiness.
(d) Isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes in a child's relationship to society during the individuation process?

2. What biblical myth does Fromm reference?

3. Where did the Renaissance begin?

4. Why is man unable to to realize his individuality when discovering his freedom?

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

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