Chapter 7 MC

Question 1

As an adolescent, Erich Fromm

	a. aspired to be a famous general in the German army.
	b. assumed that people in his native land were less belligerent than those in enemy nations.
	c. made two unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide.
	d. none of these.

Answer 1

d

Question 2

Fromm believed that the rise of capitalism has contributed to

a. the growth of personal freedom.
b. a greater degree of happiness among people.
c. feelings of anxiety, isolation, and powerlessness.
d. higher levels of community cohesion.

Answer 2

c

Question 3

Which of these people was NOT an important influence on Fromm’s thinking?

a. Sigmund Freud
b. Thomas More
c. Karl Marx
d. Johann J. Bachofen
e. Karen Horney

Answer 3

b

Question 4

One of Fromm’s basic assumptions is that people have been torn away from a union with nature, and lacking adequate animal instincts, they must rely on reason. This condition is called

a. the rational imperative.
 	b. the human dilemma.
c. manifest destiny.
d. transcendence.

Answer 4

b

Question 5

According to Fromm, the four basic elements in the process of love are knowledge, care, respect, and (wrong)

a. responsibility.
b. affection.
c. interest.
d. cooperation.

Answer 5

a

Question 6

Transcendence is the need for humans to

a. seek self-realization in a basically sick society.
b. rise above their passive and accidental existence.
c. move beyond their human nature and into the realm of superhumans.
d. feel restless and anxious with the realization that they are constantly geographically mobile.

Answer 6

b

Question 7

Rootedness is the need for humans to

a. remain fixed in the relationship with parents.
b. rise above their passive and accidental existence.
c. feel at home again in the world.
d. return to their pre-human past.
e. feel restless and anxious with the realization that they are forever geographically mobile.

Answer 7

c

Question 8

Fromm believed that a frame of orientation is necessary in order for people to

a. achieve personal identity.
b. achieve group cohesiveness.
c. make their way through the world.
d. rise above their animal nature.

Answer 8

c

Question 9

When existential needs are not satisfied, people will

a. become motivated by human needs.
b. become motivated by essential needs.
c. develop extraordinary willpower.
d. none of these.

Answer 9

d

Question 10

According to Fromm, the freaks of the universe are

a. people.
b. women.
c. planets.
d. snakes.

Answer 10

a

Question 11

In Fromm’s view, people with basic anxiety

a. suffer from the burden of freedom.
b. express their anxiety by moving toward people.
c. eventually suffer a psychotic break.
d. represent a small minority of all people.
e. all of these.

Answer 11

a

Question 12

Authoritarianism may take these two forms.

a. power and destruction
b. sadism and masochism
c. love and hate
d. effective and ineffective

Answer 12

b

Question 13

The spontaneous activity of a healthy individual represents

a. positive freedom.
b. essential freedom.
c. existential chaos.
d. transcendence.

Answer 13

a

Question 14

The two components of positive freedom are

a. work and love.
b. thought and action.
c. faith and hope.
d. desire and restraint.

Answer 14

a

Question 15

Freud’s anal character is similar to Fromm’s ______ character.

a. hoarding
b. marketing
c. exploitative
d. receptive

Answer 15

a

Question 16

Which nonproductive character is a product of modern commerce?

a. hoarding
b. exploitative
c. marketing
d. receptive

Answer 16

c

Question 17

Biophilia is

a. the psychic illness of the modern age.
b. a passionate love of life.
c. the principal component of the syndrome of decay.
d. an erotic desire to hoard one's childhood toys.

Answer 17

b

Question 18

Fromm believed that psychopathology stems from

a. unconscious guilt.
b. modes of assimilation.
c. modes of socialization.
d. lack of rootedness.

Answer 18

c

Question 19

People who suffer from malignant narcissism

a. tend to be sadistic in their relations with others.
b. devalue that which belongs to others while overvaluing that which they possess.
c. usually possess a strong mother fixation.
d. are characterized by necrophilia and the loss of self-identity.

Answer 19

b

Question 20

A person with moral hypochondrias

a. is overly concerned with physical symptoms.
b. is overly concerned with psychological symptoms.
c. suffers from the syndrome of decay.
d. is preoccupied with guilt.

Answer 20

d

Question 21

Which of these is NOT part of Fromm’s syndrome of decay?

a. malignant narcissism.
b. moral hypochondrias.
c. incestuous symbiosis.
d. necrophilia.

Answer 21

b

Question 22

In his concept of humanity, Erich Fromm emphasized

a. neuroses.
b. differences between humans and other animals.
c. similarities between women and men.
d. the human need to achieve self-actualization.

Answer 22

d