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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What example does Fromm use to point out a contradiction of freedom?
(a) Freedom of mobility.
(b) Freedom of capitalism.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom from social order.

3. Who does the individual submit to when conforming?
(a) Self.
(b) A powerful leader.
(c) He does not submit.
(d) Society.

4. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?
(a) Working class domination.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Laissez-faire.
(d) Trade.

5. What German class of people was most likely to submit to Nazism?
(a) Upper class.
(b) Lower, middle classes.
(c) Working class.
(d) Royalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Renaissance begin?

2. Which of the following was NOT a restriction during the Middle Ages?

3. What biblical myth does Fromm reference?

4. What develops as a child grows and primary ties are cut?

5. Who accompanied Robinson Crusoe on his adventures?

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