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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. How does Fromm define selfishness?
(a) Enjoying capitalism.
(b) Acting in one's self-interest.
(c) Being aware of one's self.
(d) Ignoring others.

2. How did Hitler feel about Germany?
(a) He did not want to see Germany succeed.
(b) He disliked Germany.
(c) He loved Germany.
(d) He felt indifferently.

3. What do masochistic people seek?
(a) They want to both submit and dominate.
(b) They want to dominate a stronger person.
(c) They want to submit to a stronger person.
(d) They want to dominate a weaker person.

4. How does Fromm categorize the second group of Germans who supported the Nazis?
(a) Those who fully adopted Nazism.
(b) Those who were indifferent to Nazism.
(c) Those who disagreed with Nazism.
(d) Those who stood against Nazism.

5. What German social class both submitted to Hitler and fully adopted his Nazi ideology?
(a) Lower, middle class.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Upper, middle class.
(d) Upper class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is man's "biological weakness"?

2. What circumstances directly affected a person's willingness to submit to an authoritarian like Hitler?

3. What church dominated religion during the Middle Ages?

4. What is NOT mentioned as a possible consequence for dynamic adaptation?

5. What do Fromm's critics fear will happen to society during the process of individuality?

(see the answer key)

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