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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. What time period was marked by man's darkness and scheming?
(a) The Dark Ages.
(b) The Middle Ages.
(c) Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Renaissance.

2. What do Fromm's critics fear will happen to society during the process of individuality?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Communism.

3. Where did the Renaissance begin?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) United States.

4. In the chapter "Freedom and Democracy," how does a person develop individuality?
(a) Excluding the self from being the center of one's world.
(b) Making the self and others the center of one's world.
(c) Making the self the center of society.
(d) Making the self the center of one's world.

5. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Trade.
(c) Laissez-faire.
(d) Working class domination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a characteristic of the old, middle class that Fromm identifies?

2. Why did the middle class see an increase in white-collar workers?

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

4. In addition to a love for Germany, what other authoritarian characteristic did Hitler possess?

5. What do masochists receive from their submissive acts?

(see the answer key)

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