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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 weaknesses do sadists and masochists compensate for?
(a) Power.
(b) Lack of money.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Isolation and fear.

2. How has the role of the "boss" changed in the modern world?
(a) The boss works alongside his workers.
(b) There is no boss.
(c) The boss is more involved.
(d) The boss has a less personal role and is more anonymous.

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

4. Who accompanied Robinson Crusoe on his adventures?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Monday.
(c) No one.
(d) Friday.

5. What is man's "biological weakness"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Power.
(d) Human culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What examples does Fromm cite in the chapter "Freedom and Democracy" of how a democratic society limits individuals?

2. What biblical myth does Fromm reference?

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

4. According to Fromm's animal kingdom analogy, why is man so helpless at birth?

5. What psychological idea is destructiveness related to?

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