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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 is the term Fromm uses to describe an individual act that does not compromise one's integrity?
(a) Positive freedom.
(b) Positive individuality.
(c) Positive acts.
(d) Negative freedom.

2. Who must support the central bureaucracy in order for it to achieve its goal?
(a) The upper class of a given society.
(b) All the people in a given society.
(c) The middle class only.
(d) Both the lower and upper classes.

3. What psychological idea is destructiveness related to?
(a) Neurosis.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Psychosis.
(d) Amnesia.

4. What is the original self?
(a) Self that thinks like the leader.
(b) Self that does not think.
(c) Self that thinks like society.
(d) Self that originates its own mental activities.

5. Which of the following did man NOT have to face while living in Eden?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Work.
(c) Choice
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does an individual conform to society?

2. What German social class both submitted to Hitler and fully adopted his Nazi ideology?

3. What violent acts between countries added to feelings of powerlessness and anxiety during the nineteenth century?

4. What war do many consider to be ultimate victory for freedom, according to Fromm?

5. Who replaces the original self?

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