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

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

3. Who does the individual submit to when conforming?
(a) Society.
(b) He does not submit.
(c) A powerful leader.
(d) Self.

4. According to Freud's "psychologistic" approach to understanding human culture, what image inspired early Christianity?
(a) Ambivalence toward the father.
(b) Love for the mother.
(c) Ambivalence toward the mother.
(d) Ambivalence toward society.

5. How did Luther define selfishness?
(a) Ignoring religion.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Sin.
(d) Self-loathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political and economic beliefs does Fromm wish to reconnect man with?

2. What kind of acts are "phenomena of abundance"?

3. Why does an individual conform to society?

4. How did Fromm separate the two groups of German people who supported the Nazis?

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

(see the answer key)

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