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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. Who accompanied Robinson Crusoe on his adventures?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) No one.
(d) Wednesday.

2. What factor most affected a person's change of identify during the Middle Ages?
(a) HIs family.
(b) His religion.
(c) His occupation.
(d) His individuality.

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

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

5. What feeling did the inflation in 1923 Germany and the American crash in 1929 create?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Individuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drives man's struggle for self-promotion?

2. What political tool was used to influence an individual who was voting?

3. What social class found Lutheranism the most appealing?

4. What changes in a child's relationship to society during the individuation process?

5. What does Fromm cite as an example of dynamic adaptation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Fromm uses freedom of speech to explain that when a freedom is gained, it is also restricted?

4. How did Lutheranism challenge the Catholic Church?

5. What are the three falsehoods about authoritarianism?

6. How does an individual's learning further the process of individuation and how does this affect a child's relationship with his mother?

7. How did the Protestant Reformation affect individual freedom?

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

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

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

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