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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mechanisms of Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Calvin, what does leading a virtuous life alleviate?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Predestination.
(c) Fate.
(d) Sin.

2. What tool developed out of the new capitalistic system that helped promote business?
(a) Sales.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Discounts.
(d) Coupons.

3. What organizations were formed during the Renaissance to control prices?
(a) Unions.
(b) The church.
(c) Monopolies.
(d) Guilds.

4. What changes in a child's relationship to society during the individuation process?
(a) Society shuns the child.
(b) The child becomes more separated from society.
(c) There is no change in this relationship.
(d) The child becomes more included in a group.

5. What did the Church during the Middle Ages promise people who accepted guilt for their sins?
(a) Disdain for sin.
(b) Forgiveness and unconditional love.
(c) The church promised wealth.
(d) The church did not do anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a key factor to the changes taking place in Europe at the close of the Middle Ages?

2. What psychological idea is destructiveness related to?

3. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?

4. What does Fromm believe is the greatest assertion of individuality?

5. Who described moral isolation in "The Inventor's Suffering"?

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