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

2. How did Hitler feel about Germany?
(a) He felt indifferently.
(b) He loved Germany.
(c) He disliked Germany.
(d) He did not want to see Germany succeed.

3. Who does the individual submit to when conforming?
(a) He does not submit.
(b) Self.
(c) A powerful leader.
(d) Society.

4. What does the development of individual and social characters lead to?
(a) The collapse of society.
(b) Less freedom for the individual.
(c) The development of historical events.
(d) More freedom for the individual.

5. What do sadists seek?
(a) They seek to dominate others.
(b) They seek submission.
(c) They avoid dominance.
(d) They seek to be dominated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Fromm's critics fear will happen to society during the process of individuality?

2. What is automaton conformity?

3. Whose theory about economic gains driving history have many historians misunderstood?

4. What feelings increase when automatic behaviors, like conformity, exist?

5. What is Fromm's theory about Hitler and the success of the Nazi party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is automaton conformity?

2. What is the social function of education?

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

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

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

6. What is spontaneous action and original thought?

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

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

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

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

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