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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 feelings increase when automatic behaviors, like conformity, exist?
(a) Fear and isolation.
(b) Power and greed.
(c) Love and honesty.
(d) Freedom and integrity.

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

3. What German social class supported Hitler but did not adopt his ideologies?
(a) Upper class and liberal.
(b) Upper class and conservative.
(c) Middle class and moderate.
(d) Working class and liberal.

4. What happened to Germany's economic stability following World War I?
(a) Germany's economy remained unchanged.
(b) Germany's economy was strengthened.
(c) Germany's economy was weakened.
(d) Germany's economy was the strongest in its history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Mein Kampf"?

2. What political ideology is a historical example of authoritarian mechanism?

3. What happens when the political restraints that an individual has come to rely on are removed?

4. What is a mutually beneficial relationship called?

5. What does the development of individual and social characters lead to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was life like for the lower, middle class following World War I? How did these conditions impact impacted their submission to Nazism?

2. What characteristics describe the second group of Germans who supported the Nazis?

3. What qualities did Hitler and Nazism possess that appealed to a large population of Germans?

4. What two choices does a person have when confronted by isolation and fear in achieving freedom?

5. What role does character play in the individual and society?

6. How does formal education limit a child's freedom?

7. Why was Nazism so appealing to the lower middle class of Germans?

8. What is true freedom and what do Fromm's critics fear it can lead to?

9. How is an individual's character structure affected by economic and political changes?

10. What is automaton conformity?

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