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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Aspects of Freedom for Modern Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What religions attracted the middle class during the Renaissance?
(a) Judaism and Catholicism.
(b) Hindu and Buddism.
(c) Lutheranism and Calvinism.
(d) Catholicism and Islam.

4. What changes in a child's relationship to society during the individuation process?
(a) The child becomes more separated from society.
(b) Society shuns the child.
(c) There is no change in this relationship.
(d) The child becomes more included in a group.

5. What political tool was used to influence an individual who was voting?
(a) Political propaganda.
(b) Campaigns.
(c) Speeches.
(d) Voting blocs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What outlined most new freedoms of the Reformation?

3. What contradiction of freedom does Fromm discuss in his book?

4. How did the Middle Ages support man's freedom?

5. What was a positive social aspect of the Middle Ages?

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