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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Freedom and Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political ideology did Nietzsche find nihilism intertwined with?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Nazism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Democracy.

2. What is "spontaneous" action?
(a) Actions that come from what an individual used to do.
(b) Actions that come from what others do.
(c) Actions that come from what others feel and think.
(d) Actions that come from what a person feels and thinks.

3. In addition to a love for Germany, what other authoritarian characteristic did Hitler possess?
(a) Desire to submit.
(b) Hatred for other groups.
(c) Belief in religious freedom.
(d) Feelings of powerlessness.

4. Who described the fearful individual as tormented by self-doubt?
(a) Fromm.
(b) Kiekegaard.
(c) Marx.
(d) Freud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fromm say even a democratic society can pressure individuals to do?

2. What do masochists receive from their submissive acts?

3. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?

4. What feelings increase when automatic behaviors, like conformity, exist?

5. What did the social order provide individuals during the Middle Ages?

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