Escape from Freedom Test | Final Test - Easy

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Escape from Freedom Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do masochists receive from their submissive acts?
(a) Power.
(b) Pain.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Pleasure.

2. What German social class both submitted to Hitler and fully adopted his Nazi ideology?
(a) Upper, middle class.
(b) Lower, middle class.
(c) Upper class.
(d) Nobility.

3. What political ideology is reinforced by an authoritarian character?
(a) Communism.
(b) Facism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Democracy.

4. Why does Fromm suggest analyzing psychological mechanisms in individuals?
(a) It helps understand society.
(b) It enables man to improve himself.
(c) Fromm believes it will lead to more freedom.
(d) He uses it to draw conclusions about the group(s) one belongs to.

5. What is "spontaneous" action?
(a) Actions that come from what others do.
(b) Actions that come from what an individual used to do.
(c) Actions that come from what a person feels and thinks.
(d) Actions that come from what others feel and think.

6. 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 child-rearing.
(c) Education and employment.
(d) Laws and social norms.

7. Which view of human culture takes into account how religious ideas develop economic behavior?
(a) Socialistic.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Idealistic.
(d) Utopian.

8. What do Fromm's critics fear will happen to society during the process of individuality?
(a) Communism.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Democracy.

9. What does the social character influence?
(a) The individual's desire for freedom.
(b) The economic process.
(c) The democractic system.
(d) The social progress.

10. What is a mutually beneficial relationship called?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Syllabus.
(c) Sympathy.
(d) Symbiosis.

11. What is Fromm's theory about Hitler and the success of the Nazi party?
(a) The German people adored Hitler.
(b) Hitler was well-regarded in world politics.
(c) The explanation is as psychological as Hitler was neurotic.
(d) Hitler wanted to unify people.

12. Why does an individual conform to society?
(a) To escape feelings of isolaton and fear.
(b) To escape feelings of conformity.
(c) To escape freedoms and individuality.
(d) To escape a dictator.

13. Why did the Nazi regime appear to be stable?
(a) The population had trouble being submissive.
(b) The population seemed to have its needs met.
(c) Hitler was no longer in power.
(d) The citizens were in revolt.

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

15. What political belief aligns with Fromm's definition of freedom?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to World War I, who was the lower, middle class obedient to?

2. What weaknesses do sadists and masochists compensate for?

3. What is one false theory about why the Nazis came to power?

4. What approach to history views the economic interests as the cause of religion and political ideas?

5. What forces in a capitalistic society isolate people?

(see the answer keys)

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