So, for those who aren't in on the big secret, these questions are all part of research that was done in the late 40s and published in 1950. People wanted to know how come a whole country could turn to fascism and one research team typothesised that there was an "authoritarian personality" that would be susceptible to it. It seems that their idea that this is where fascim comes from wasn't really right -- in particular, circumstances are far more important than personality -- but there was indeed evidence that the "authoritarian personality" does exist.
In the original study, "authoritarian personality" was synonymous with people who score highly on an anti-semitism scale (remember, this was in the wake of WW2) and an ethnocentrism scale (i.e. belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture). The researchers then identified that high scores on these scales correlated strongly with what they called the "F-scale", or "potential for fascism" scale. They could predict whether people would be ethnocentric and anti-semitic using questions including the six I posted above -- three in the OP (positive = high F-scale) and three later (negative, positive, negative respectively).
Turns out that the things that really defined the authoritarian were some obvious points, such as deference to authority, obedience to rules, belief in "traditional" values, rejection of the unconventional, rigid thinking, hostility to the weak. But also some stuff maybe less obvious. In the latter category were thinking of the outside world as threatening, being superstitious and being overly concerned with sexual propriety.
So a true authoritarian would answer the question about whether books and movies should not deal with the sordid and seamy side of life with an emphatic yes.
