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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. In "Freedom-A Psychological Problem," how does Fromm define work?
(a) Work is concrete and part of an economic system.
(b) Work is anything man does for the group.
(c) Work is whatever the individual wants it to be.
(d) Work is anything man does for himself.

2. What biblical myth does Fromm reference?
(a) Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
(b) Noah's Ark.
(c) Joseph and his brothers.
(d) Man's explusion from paradise.

3. According to Fromm, what competing forces does man struggle with?
(a) Fairness and greed.
(b) Money and loyalty.
(c) Ego and modesty.
(d) Individuality and freedom.

4. According to Fromm's animal kingdom analogy, why is man so helpless at birth?
(a) Man is disconnected from nature.
(b) Man relies on learning in order to adapt to nature.
(c) Man is disconnected from his fellow man.
(d) Man needs others to guide him.

5. What does Fromm say increases a child's emotional state?
(a) Calm.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Insecurity.
(d) Protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Fromm view the action of man eating the forbidden fruit as a positive act?

2. Fromm likens man's sin of eating the forbidden fruit to what act?

3. What outlined most new freedoms of the Reformation?

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

5. Whose work about a ten-year-old child's awareness of self does Fromm reference?

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