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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 does Fromm believe each individual is capable of expressing, as discussed in the chapter "Freedom and Democracy"?
(a) Expressing his sadomasochistic desires.
(b) Expressing himself as an individual.
(c) Expressing himself as part of a group.
(d) Expressing a desire to mend primary ties.

2. What type of character was familiar to the lower, middle class?
(a) Authoritarian.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Capitalistic.
(d) Wealthy.

3. What circumstances directly affected a person's willingness to submit to an authoritarian like Hitler?
(a) Isolation from society.
(b) Their economic situation.
(c) Religion.
(d) Powerlessness.

4. What political ideology is a historical example of authoritarian mechanism?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Nazism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Communism.

5. What is democratic socialism?
(a) A political and economic system where the people vote for a dictator.
(b) Fascism with economic liberalism.
(c) A political and economic system with a central bureaucracy that is supported by the people.
(d) Economic restictions with a free government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the original self?

2. What examples does Fromm cite in the chapter "Freedom and Democracy" of how a democratic society limits individuals?

3. What is "pseudo-thinking"?

4. What word best describes the idea where man "strives for submission and domination"?

5. Who does the individual submit to when conforming?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Fromm, why are "normal" people willing to conform to the ideas of an authoritarian character?

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

4. What role does the family have in developing the character structure of an individual?

5. How does the loss of identify affect an individual's willingness to conform, and what are the consequences for it?

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

7. What is the relationship between sadism and masochism? How does the relationship affect authoritarian characters?

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

9. What characteristics describe the first group of Germans who supported the Nazis?

10. What is authority, as defined in the chapter "Mechanisms of Escape"?

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