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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. The author compares statism to what kind of rule?

2. What right does the government have that a private organization does not?

3. The author feels that the only way to make the industry responsive to the market is to make the airwaves what?

4. Patents apply to what?

5. The author believes that licensing the airwaves leads to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do capital markets affect prices?

2. What should the governments of free countries protect?

3. What do the businessmen take the blame for in the case of the Central Pacific Railroad?

4. How does the existence of money help people?

5. How do most political economists approach their study of man?

6. What are the first labor laws concerning children about?

7. How does Alan Greenspan describe a business world with antitrust laws?

8. What are patents and copyrights?

9. What does A.D. Neale think about U.S. antitrust laws?

10. What does the author believe about the disintegration of philosophy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the author believe about businessmen and capitalism? How are businessmen central to the author's arguments about capitalism?

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book to support your answer; what does Rand mean when she says there is morality in rational self-interest?

Essay Topic 3

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

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