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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weaknesses do sadists and masochists compensate for?
(a) Lack of money.
(b) Power.
(c) Isolation and fear.
(d) Freedom.

2. What do both societies and individuals possess that make them unique?
(a) Power.
(b) Characters.
(c) Greed.
(d) Money.

3. What is NOT a characteristic of the old, middle class that Fromm identifies?
(a) Pride.
(b) Thrift.
(c) Cautiousness.
(d) Frugality.

4. Why does an individual conform to society?
(a) To escape a dictator.
(b) To escape feelings of conformity.
(c) To escape freedoms and individuality.
(d) To escape feelings of isolaton and fear.

5. What kind of acts are "phenomena of abundance"?
(a) Acts of individuality.
(b) Calculated acts.
(c) Free or spontaneous acts.
(d) Malicious acts.

6. What political belief aligns with Fromm's definition of freedom?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Communism.

7. Whose theory about economic gains driving history have many historians misunderstood?
(a) Marx.
(b) Engels.
(c) Bancroft.
(d) Freud.

8. What German social class supported Hitler but did not adopt his ideologies?
(a) Upper class and liberal.
(b) Upper class and conservative.
(c) Working class and liberal.
(d) Middle class and moderate.

9. What academic, who Fromm disagrees with, also wrote about the social interpretation of the human development?
(a) Jung.
(b) Engels.
(c) Freud.
(d) Pavlov.

10. What has a key role in human development?
(a) Social forces.
(b) Family forces.
(c) Individual forces.
(d) Religious forces.

11. Why did the Nazi regime appear to be stable?
(a) The population had trouble being submissive.
(b) The population seemed to have its needs met.
(c) The citizens were in revolt.
(d) Hitler was no longer in power.

12. Why did the second group of Germans who both supported the Nazis and adopt their ideas submit to Hitler?
(a) They wanted to have more freedom.
(b) They enjoyed fewer taxes under Nazism.
(c) They wanted to dominate others.
(d) Nazism appealed to their desire for authoritarianism.

13. Who replaces the original self?
(a) The conforming self.
(b) The pseudo self.
(c) The actual self.
(d) The social self.

14. According to Freud's "psychologistic" approach to understanding human culture, what image inspired early Christianity?
(a) Ambivalence toward society.
(b) Ambivalence toward the father.
(c) Love for the mother.
(d) Ambivalence toward the mother.

15. Who wrote the book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"?
(a) Max Weber.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Martin Luther.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fromm's theory about Hitler and the success of the Nazi party?

2. What was the ultimate goal of the Nazi party?

3. According to Fromm, who must the economy be a servant to?

4. What does Fromm cite as the psychological reason for Hitler and his followers' desire for sadomasochism?

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

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