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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 political ideology did Nietzsche find nihilism intertwined with?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Nazism.
(d) Democracy.

2. What forces does an individual need freedom from in order to be a free individual?
(a) Freedom from family and friends.
(b) Freedom from thinking and self.
(c) Freedom from authority and outside constraints.
(d) Freedom from self and family.

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

4. Which of the following was NOT a restriction during the Middle Ages?
(a) Man could move anywhere he wanted.
(b) Man could change his dress attire.
(c) Artisans could sell at any price.
(d) Man could change his social order.

5. What was a key factor to the changes taking place in Europe at the close of the Middle Ages?
(a) Family structure changes.
(b) Social change.
(c) Economic change.
(d) Religious change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumptions about man are made that lead people to fear chaos if he acts only in accordance with himself?

2. What social class found Lutheranism the most appealing?

3. How does Fromm categorize the second group of Germans who supported the Nazis?

4. How did capitalism change the role of individuals?

5. What changes in a child's relationship to society during the individuation process?

(see the answer key)

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