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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 advantage do animals have over man when entering the world?
(a) Animals are instinctual.
(b) Animals do not care about hierarchy.
(c) Animals are smarter.
(d) Animals have more freedoms.

2. Whose work about a ten-year-old child's awareness of self does Fromm reference?
(a) Marx.
(b) Engles.
(c) Freud.
(d) R. Hughes.

3. What does Fromm say increases a child's emotional state?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Calm.
(c) Insecurity.
(d) Protection.

4. Who described moral isolation in "The Inventor's Suffering"?
(a) Fromm.
(b) Balzac.
(c) Marx.
(d) Freud.

5. What factor became the greatest social influence during the Renaissance?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Family.
(c) Education.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were individuals able to enjoy some expressive and emotional freedom during medieval times?

2. According to Freud, how is man best described?

3. In the description of Emily's self-discovery, what did she examine when sitting on her perch?

4. What is man's "biological weakness"?

5. Which writer summarized Fromm's thoughts on isolation and powerlessness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does capitalism affect an individual's freedom, and what are Fromm's criticisms of capitalism?

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

3. How does Fromm feel about man gaining freedom but losing personal security?

4. What are Fromm's ideas about work, the economy, and society?

5. What was the economic system like during medieval times?

6. How did Lutheranism challenge the Catholic Church?

7. What are the three falsehoods about authoritarianism?

8. How did the Protestant Reformation affect individual freedom?

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

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

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