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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of system is property privately owned but controlled by the government?

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

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

4. In what type of system is property publicly owned and controlled?

5. What does the author believe that productive work generates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brings about an intellectual movement's collapse?

2. What does the pope's encyclical say about work?

3. Who comes and helps the students protest in Berkeley in 1964?

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

5. Why, according to the author, do many less-developed countries hate the U.S.?

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

7. What does taxation do to the marketplace?

8. How is property dealt with in fascism?

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

10. What is the reason, according to the author, that capitalism is having trouble sustaining itself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is statism and how does statism affect freedom? Cite examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the way the author treats liberal and conservative ideas in her book. Support your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

According to the information presented in the book, what are the political, economic, social, moral and philosophic differences between the reason-individualism-capitalism position and the mysticism-altruism-collectivism positions?

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