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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 is automaton conformity?
(a) The practice of ignoring society.
(b) The practice of conforming to a hero.
(c) The practice of individuals becoming like everyone else.
(d) Conforming only to one's self.

2. What happens when the political restraints that an individual has come to rely on are removed?
(a) People finally feel free and individual.
(b) The fear and isolation are completely eliminated.
(c) The fear and isolation are made much worse.
(d) There is still fear, and isolated people find something new to depend on.

3. Why is it possible for people to conform without their knowledge?
(a) It is not possible.
(b) They do so subconsciously.
(c) People think their thoughts are their own, but they have come from another source.
(d) People want to belong.

4. What do both societies and individuals possess that make them unique?
(a) Greed.
(b) Characters.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.

5. What name does Fromm give to the isolation that allows Fascism to grow?
(a) Fertile soil.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Fertilizer.
(d) Mulch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What German social class both submitted to Hitler and fully adopted his Nazi ideology?

2. What is "pseudo-thinking"?

3. What approach to history views the economic interests as the cause of religion and political ideas?

4. What kind of acts are "phenomena of abundance"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What traits of an authoritarian character did Hitler possess?

2. What are the similarities and differences between sadism and destructiveness?

3. What were the economic, social, and political conditions like in Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power?

4. How does a democratic society put pressure on individuals to conform?

5. How does social character affect different groups?

6. What is social character?

7. How does Fromm describe sadistic people?

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

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

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

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