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

2. What is individuation?
(a) The process by which the group singles out an individual.
(b) The growing process of the individual.
(c) A time when an individual gives up his individuality.
(d) When an individual loses his identity to the group.

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

4. What happens to primary ties once they are cut?
(a) Primary ties cannot be cut.
(b) They can be mended if man gives up his freedom.
(c) They cannot be mended.
(d) They become secondary ties.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What group of people fought in battles for freedom, as identified by Fromm?

3. What does Fromm say increases a child's emotional state?

4. Which writer recognized man's lust for power?

5. What is often a negative result of man's freedom?

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