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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Emergence of the Individual and the Ambiguity of Freedom.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What reason does Fromm cite for the rise of authoritarian leaders like Hitler?
(a) These leaders were too forceful and its members could not resist.
(b) People were seeking ways to escape from the responsibility of freedom.
(c) These leaders were cunning and used trickery to get their way.
(d) These societies were lacking training in democracy.

3. What is man's "biological weakness"?
(a) Human culture.
(b) Power.
(c) Nature.
(d) Instinct.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship connects oneself to the world without compromising individuality?

2. What psychological approach did Fromm take with his work?

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

4. What is individuation?

5. What time period did the process of individuation reach its peak?

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