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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the governor of California when the protest at Berkeley in 1964 occurs?
(a) Davis.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Brown.
(d) Deukmejian.

2. The author believes that when smears take place, they are generally aimed at what?
(a) Individuals.
(b) Political campaigns.
(c) Religious beliefs.
(d) Beliefs in values or principles.

3. From what point of view is the encyclical written?
(a) Religious-altruist.
(b) Spiritual-altruist.
(c) Personal-altruist.
(d) Mystic-altruist.

4. What is one of the arguments against a volunteer army?
(a) The amount of training needed.
(b) The lack of volunteers.
(c) The lack of motivation.
(d) The high cost.

5. In response to the claim that the superiority of communism is scientifically proven, the American answer is that the U.S. system is based on what?
(a) Faith in society.
(b) Faith in God.
(c) The rise of the individual.
(d) Belief in mankind.

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

7. What is the form of government that prevails in most of Latin America?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Statism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Republicanism.

8. Fromm believes that the feeling of being separate causes what?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Fear.
(c) Completeness.
(d) Security.

9. In what type of system is property privately owned but controlled by the government?
(a) Regulatorism.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Oligarchies.
(d) Fascism.

10. When government sets the objectives to be obtained, then it becomes what type of state?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Communist.
(c) Totalitarian.
(d) Authoritarian.

11. The existence of the military draft, according to the author, is the epitome of what?
(a) Force.
(b) Lack of freedom.
(c) Coercion.
(d) Statism.

12. Who are typical lobbyists?
(a) Nurses.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Doctors.

13. What does the John Birch Society call Eisenhower?
(a) A slave owner.
(b) A Communist.
(c) A warmonger.
(d) An elitist.

14. William Petersen is a professor of what?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Government.
(c) Political science.
(d) Psychology.

15. When Louis XIV rules, what kind of government does he have?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Parliamentary.
(d) Despotism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author refer to a principle?

2. The author believes that, in society today, there are no what?

3. Sometimes legislators are open to _______, a fact which bewilders the public.

4. What does the author blame for warping students' hopes and viewpoints?

5. According to the author, the conflict for liberals and conservatives is between the state and whom?

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