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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Freedom in the Age of Reformation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What religions attracted the middle class during the Renaissance?
(a) Hindu and Buddism.
(b) Judaism and Catholicism.
(c) Lutheranism and Calvinism.
(d) Catholicism and Islam.

4. What happens to primary ties once they are cut?
(a) They can be mended if man gives up his freedom.
(b) They cannot be mended.
(c) Primary ties cannot be cut.
(d) They become secondary ties.

5. According to Calvin, what can change a person's destiny?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Freud, how is man best described?

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

3. What is often a negative result of man's freedom?

4. What reason does Fromm cite for the rise of authoritarian leaders like Hitler?

5. What characteristic identified people during the Middle Ages?

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