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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fromm call the political freedoms associated with capitalism?
(a) Monetary freedoms.
(b) Positive freedoms.
(c) Capitalistic freedoms.
(d) Negative freedoms.

2. What independent business does Fromm reference as a model for the new middle class?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Artisans.
(c) Gas station owners.
(d) Farmers.

3. Why were individuals able to enjoy some expressive and emotional freedom during medieval times?
(a) They did not have any freedom whastoever.
(b) The freedom was given to them by the church.
(c) They fought for this freedom.
(d) They knew their exact place in the social order.

4. What did man lose as a result of his new-found freedom during the Renaissance?
(a) Loss of money.
(b) Loss of security.
(c) Loss of social class.
(d) Loss of family.

5. What outlined most new freedoms of the Reformation?
(a) Religious doctrines.
(b) The wealthy class.
(c) The economy.
(d) The arts.

6. What goal does Fromm identify as the "abolition of external domination"?
(a) Freedom of the individual.
(b) Freedom for the group.
(c) A harmonious society.
(d) Obedience to a leader.

7. According to Calvin, what can change a person's destiny?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Sin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Prayer.

8. What relationship connects oneself to the world without compromising individuality?
(a) Work and family.
(b) Religion and society.
(c) Man and society.
(d) Man and nature.

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

10. According to Freud, how is man best described?
(a) Pyschotic.
(b) Impressionable.
(c) Anti-social.
(d) Indecisive.

11. What is a consequence for man eating the forbidden fruit?
(a) Man lost freedom.
(b) There is discord between man and nature.
(c) Man is at peace with nature.
(d) Man lost his family.

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

13. What church dominated religion during the Middle Ages?
(a) Protestanism.
(b) Judiasim.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) Lutheranism.

14. Who described the fearful individual as tormented by self-doubt?
(a) Marx.
(b) Fromm.
(c) Kiekegaard.
(d) Freud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who described moral isolation in "The Inventor's Suffering"?

2. What organizations were formed during the Renaissance to control prices?

3. Where did the Renaissance begin?

4. What does Fromm say increases a child's emotional state?

5. What new economic system grew out of the Reformation?

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