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

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

3. For the author, the Cold War is a type of what warfare?
(a) Meaningless warfare.
(b) Gang warfare.
(c) Scientific warfare.
(d) Peaceful warfare.

4. In "Atlas Shrugged," what is one of the antagonists?
(a) Logical-individualism-capitalism.
(b) Reason-individualism-capitalism.
(c) Ordered-individualism-capitalism.
(d) Rational-individualism-capitalism.

5. Who does the author feel is the biggest loser in the foreign-aid program?
(a) The U.S.
(b) Britain.
(c) The semi-developed nations.
(d) The underdeveloped nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lobbyists are required to register with whom?

2. What is the name of the philosopher who introduces the concept of alienation?

3. Critics claim that FDR's New Deal programs were close to whose fascism?

4. Who takes the concept of alienation and applies it to the worker?

5. In "Atlas Shrugged," what is the second antagonist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one definition of capitalism that its supporters might use?

2. What does the pope's encyclical say motivates capitalism?

3. When does the author say that an irrational side will win an argument?

4. From what belief do foreign-aid programs stem?

5. In the "Is Atlas Shrugging?" chapter, the author asks what question about the novel "Atlas Shrugged"?

6. What are the two ways that man can comprehend the world, according to Fromm?

7. What does the existence of the draft mean for countries and politicians?

8. What meaning does the author give to the idea that public interest supersedes private interests and rights?

9. What do the French businessmen say is the best thing the king could do for them?

10. What do Republicans and Democrats claim about their side in the fight to save civilization?

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