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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychology of Nazism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Fromm's animal kingdom analogy, why is man so helpless at birth?
(a) Man is disconnected from his fellow man.
(b) Man is disconnected from nature.
(c) Man needs others to guide him.
(d) Man relies on learning in order to adapt to nature.

2. Why does man suffer from eating the forbidden fruit?
(a) He believes that what he did was wrong.
(b) He feels separated from nature and alone.
(c) He feels greedy.
(d) He does not suffer.

3. How did Fromm separate the two groups of German people who supported the Nazis?
(a) He based his theory on the people's reactions to the Jewish community.
(b) Fromm based his thoughts on how people viewed each other.
(c) He based his ideas on how people viewed themselves.
(d) Fromm based his theory on the people's reactions to the Nazis.

4. What world event left Germany in financial ruin and ultimately fostered support for Hitler among the lower, middle class Germans?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) Germany's civil war.
(d) The French Revolution.

5. Whose work about a ten-year-old child's awareness of self does Fromm reference?
(a) Marx.
(b) R. Hughes.
(c) Freud.
(d) Engles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What outlined most new freedoms of the Reformation?

3. What forces does an individual need freedom from in order to be a free individual?

4. What drives man's struggle for self-promotion?

5. What is "Mein Kampf"?

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