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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time period was marked by man's darkness and scheming?
(a) The Dark Ages.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Middle Ages.

2. Which great thinker does Fromm NOT credit in his book?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Marx.
(c) Freud.
(d) Pavlov.

3. What contradiction of freedom does Fromm discuss in his book?
(a) Man is equally isolated and independent.
(b) Man is more isolated but less independent.
(c) Man is more independent but also more isolated.
(d) Man has no increased isolation or independence.

4. What did Luther teach about man?
(a) He is moral.
(b) He is inherently corrupt.
(c) He is an individual.
(d) He is not free.

5. What is often a negative result of man's freedom?
(a) Greed.
(b) There is no negative result.
(c) Unhappiness.
(d) Isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What social force does man rely on from others?

2. According to Fromm, what competing forces does man struggle with?

3. In what country did John Calvin's Protestant movement get started?

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

5. What did the new wealthy class seek during the Renaissance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were John Calvin's ideas about religion, and how were they similar and different to Luther's ideologies?

2. How did the economic changes of the Renaissance impact the social order in society?

3. What aspects of the medieval system benefited the individual?

4. How did capitalism change the individual's role in society?

5. What is the significance of World War I when talking about freedom?

6. What is the difference between static and dynamic adaptation?

7. How did the Protestant Reformation affect individual freedom?

8. How are Fromm's ideas about the individual and society different from Freud's analysis?

9. How do Fromm and Luther differ in the definition of selfishness?

10. What economic changes altered the social ideology at the end of the 16th century?

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