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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author believes that Louis XIV creates a welfare state and ruins what?
(a) The international trade of silk.
(b) The domestic product.
(c) The international market.
(d) The domestic economy.

2. Who wins the protest at Berkeley in 1964 over a strip of land?
(a) The protesters.
(b) The professors.
(c) The chancellor.
(d) The students.

3. The author refers to the situation in which sacrifice is considered good and self-improvement is not as what?
(a) Moral obscenity.
(b) Moral corruption.
(c) Moral coercion.
(d) Moral force.

4. The author believes that the basis of American freedom is that man can act how?
(a) For the betterment of all.
(b) Selfishly.
(c) Altruistically.
(d) In his own self-intrest.

5. Governor Romney says we do not have a system of capitalism but of what?
(a) Regulation.
(b) Retaliation.
(c) Consumerism.
(d) Protectionism.

6. Who visits the United States and declares that the superiority of communism is scientifically proven?
(a) Gorbachev.
(b) Vonderenko.
(c) Putin.
(d) Khrushchev.

7. Critics claim that FDR's New Deal programs were close to whose fascism?
(a) Hitler's.
(b) Mussolini's.
(c) Figurio's.
(d) Napolean's.

8. What does the author believe determines the course of history?
(a) Man's work.
(b) Man's mistakes.
(c) Man's self-sacrifice.
(d) Man's ideas.

9. In the U.S., the economic system isn't a pure capitalist system but is what?
(a) A mixed socialism.
(b) A mixed capitalism.
(c) A mixed system.
(d) A mixed economy.

10. Which does the author predict will win when the principles are clearly defined by the groups hold opposite views?
(a) The rational entity.
(b) The more intelligent entity.
(c) The logical entity.
(d) The selfless entity.

11. When is the period of McCarthyism?
(a) 1920s-30s.
(b) 1910s-1920s.
(c) 1930s-40s.
(d) 1940s-50s.

12. When there is a conflict among groups that do not have the same principles, which does the author predict will win?
(a) The most rational entity.
(b) The more evil or irrational entity.
(c) The entity that has society's good as a purpose.
(d) The entity with the most power.

13. What does "laissez-nous faire" mean in English?
(a) Don't meddle with us.
(b) Leave us alone.
(c) Help us succeed.
(d) Leave us with ourselves.

14. Who is Erich Fromm?
(a) A mediator and author.
(b) A lawyer and author.
(c) A sociologist and author.
(d) A psychologist and author.

15. Among those countries of the world that have had fascist dictatorships, a favorable opinion of _______ is found.
(a) Monarchism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Oligarchism.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author present in her book "Atlas Shrugged" that is reflected in current events?

2. What kind of medicine is part of the British economic system?

3. How does the author refer to a principle?

4. When Louis XIV rules, what kind of government does he have?

5. When is isolationism prevalent in the U.S.?

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