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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time period did the process of individuation reach its peak?
(a) The centuries between the Reformation and present day.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) Biblical times.
(d) The Middle Ages.

2. What did the Church during the Middle Ages promise people who accepted guilt for their sins?
(a) Forgiveness and unconditional love.
(b) The church did not do anything.
(c) Disdain for sin.
(d) The church promised wealth.

3. What social force does man rely on from others?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Protection.
(c) Civility.
(d) Love.

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

5. What group was responsible for improving the economic position of the worker?
(a) The distant boss.
(b) Guilds.
(c) Big business.
(d) Trade unions.

6. What is individuation?
(a) A time when an individual gives up his individuality.
(b) The growing process of the individual.
(c) When an individual loses his identity to the group.
(d) The process by which the group singles out an individual.

7. Why did the middle class see an increase in white-collar workers?
(a) Increased education.
(b) Political reform.
(c) Big business expansion.
(d) Immigration.

8. According to the Catholic Church, what corrupts man?
(a) Sin.
(b) Society.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Money.

9. What feeling did the inflation in 1923 Germany and the American crash in 1929 create?
(a) Power.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Insecurity.

10. What is the name of Franz Kafka's work that Fromm references in his book?
(a) The Trial.
(b) Throne.
(c) Castle.
(d) Amerika.

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

12. In "Freedom-A Psychological Problem," how does Fromm define work?
(a) Work is concrete and part of an economic system.
(b) Work is whatever the individual wants it to be.
(c) Work is anything man does for himself.
(d) Work is anything man does for the group.

13. Which of the following did man NOT have to face while living in Eden?
(a) Choice
(b) Happiness.
(c) Work.
(d) Freedom.

14. What drives man's struggle for self-promotion?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Individuality.
(d) The lack of love for one's self.

15. Why was medieval man in bondage?
(a) He was not self-aware.
(b) He was bound to the church.
(c) He was not part of a group.
(d) He was still bound by primary ties.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did capitalism change the role of individuals?

2. What group of people fought in battles for freedom, as identified by Fromm?

3. What political ideology did John Dewey discuss?

4. How did the Middle Ages support man's freedom?

5. What outlined most new freedoms of the Reformation?

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