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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What examples does Fromm cite in the chapter "Freedom and Democracy" of how a democratic society limits individuals?
(a) Employment and child-rearing.
(b) Education and employment.
(c) Laws and social norms.
(d) Education and child-rearing.

2. How did Fromm separate the two groups of German people who supported the Nazis?
(a) Fromm based his theory on the people's reactions to the Nazis.
(b) He based his theory on the people's reactions to the Jewish community.
(c) Fromm based his thoughts on how people viewed each other.
(d) He based his ideas on how people viewed themselves.

3. What circumstances directly affected a person's willingness to submit to an authoritarian like Hitler?
(a) Religion.
(b) Their economic situation.
(c) Isolation from society.
(d) Powerlessness.

4. What is NOT a characteristic of the old, middle class that Fromm identifies?
(a) Frugality.
(b) Thrift.
(c) Cautiousness.
(d) Pride.

5. What is "original" thought?
(a) A thought someone has that they think is their own.
(b) A thought that someone wants you to believe.
(c) Thoughts that originate from another person.
(d) Thoughts that orginate in the individual.

6. What is the original self?
(a) Self that does not think.
(b) Self that originates its own mental activities.
(c) Self that thinks like the leader.
(d) Self that thinks like society.

7. According to Fromm, why does sadism appear natural?
(a) It is how animals survive.
(b) It emphasizes the survival of nature over man.
(c) It emphasizes the survival of the fittest over nature and man.
(d) It is not natural.

8. What is democratic socialism?
(a) Economic restictions with a free government.
(b) Fascism with economic liberalism.
(c) A political and economic system with a central bureaucracy that is supported by the people.
(d) A political and economic system where the people vote for a dictator.

9. What does Fromm argue that leads to man act destructively?
(a) Isolation and fear causes man to act destructively.
(b) Freedom causes man to act destructively.
(c) Participation in a group causes man to act destructively.
(d) Capitalism causes man to act destructively.

10. What is the social function of education?
(a) Make children polite.
(b) Prepare children to separate from society.
(c) Make children understand rules.
(d) Prepare the individual for the role he plays later in society.

11. What is society's character based on?
(a) Analyzing the individual is a water of time.
(b) Analyzing society is a waste of time.
(c) It can be based on the analysis of the individual.
(d) It cannot be based on the analysis of the individual.

12. Who must support the central bureaucracy in order for it to achieve its goal?
(a) Both the lower and upper classes.
(b) The middle class only.
(c) All the people in a given society.
(d) The upper class of a given society.

13. What approach to history views the economic interests as the cause of religion and political ideas?
(a) Laissez-faire.
(b) Capitalistic.
(c) Bartering.
(d) Economistic.

14. What has a key role in human development?
(a) Family forces.
(b) Social forces.
(c) Religious forces.
(d) Individual forces.

15. What political and economic beliefs does Fromm wish to reconnect man with?
(a) Democratic principles and a planned economy.
(b) Marxism and a capitalistic economy.
(c) Communism and a socialist economy.
(d) Fascism and a market driven economy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term Fromm uses to describe an individual act that does not compromise one's integrity?

3. What is Fromm's theory about Hitler and the success of the Nazi party?

4. What name does Fromm give to the isolation that allows Fascism to grow?

5. What is a mutually beneficial relationship called?

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