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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 war do many consider to be ultimate victory for freedom, according to Fromm?
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) World War I.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) World War II.

2. What is a consequence for man eating the forbidden fruit?
(a) There is discord between man and nature.
(b) Man lost freedom.
(c) Man is at peace with nature.
(d) Man lost his family.

3. Who described moral isolation in "The Inventor's Suffering"?
(a) Freud.
(b) Marx.
(c) Fromm.
(d) Balzac.

4. According to Freud, how is man best described?
(a) Indecisive.
(b) Pyschotic.
(c) Impressionable.
(d) Anti-social.

5. When are fears most likely to be flexible?
(a) Adulthood.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Never.
(d) Geriatrics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT mentioned as a possible consequence for dynamic adaptation?

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

3. What goal does Fromm identify as the "abolition of external domination"?

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

5. What social force does man rely on from others?

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