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

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

3. In the description of Emily's self-discovery, what did she examine when sitting on her perch?
(a) The skin of her hands.
(b) The wind ruffling the tree branches.
(c) The clouds above her.
(d) Her head.

4. Which writer recognized man's lust for power?
(a) Newton.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Locke.
(d) Machiavelli.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What develops as a child grows and primary ties are cut?

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

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

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

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

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