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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendix: Character and the Social Process.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the social order provide individuals during the Middle Ages?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Money.
(c) Feelings of security and belonging.
(d) Freedom.

3. Which of the following does Fromm NOT mention when discussing the definition of freedom?
(a) Freedom can be a threat.
(b) Freedom is easily attained.
(c) Freedom is the absence of pressure.
(d) For some, freedom is cherished.

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

5. What is "Mein Kampf"?
(a) Hitler's autobiography.
(b) A book about pre-Hitler Germany.
(c) A book about the Holocaust.
(d) A German history book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German social class supported Hitler but did not adopt his ideologies?

2. What does Fromm believe is the greatest assertion of individuality?

3. What is democratic socialism?

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

5. How does Fromm define selfishness?

(see the answer key)

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