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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Freedom and Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Fromm categorize the second group of Germans who supported the Nazis?
(a) Those who disagreed with Nazism.
(b) Those who were indifferent to Nazism.
(c) Those who fully adopted Nazism.
(d) Those who stood against Nazism.

5. What forces in a capitalistic society isolate people?
(a) Economic forces.
(b) Social forces.
(c) Religious forces.
(d) Familial forces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling did the inflation in 1923 Germany and the American crash in 1929 create?

2. What is an authoritarian character?

3. What factor most affected a person's change of identify during the Middle Ages?

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

5. Who is the servant of capitalism?

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