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

2. Lobbying is the act of trying to influence whom?

3. Who does the author feel is the biggest loser in the foreign-aid program?

4. What is the form of government that prevails in most of Latin America?

5. According to the author, many less-developed countries feel ______ by capitalism.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is idealistic hypocrisy, according to Brown?

2. How does the author see the conflict between the Democrats and the Republicans in America?

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

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

5. What does the debate at the Republican National Convention over the John Birch Society calling Eisenhower a Communist create?

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

7. What is the theme of "Atlas Shrugged"?

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

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

10. What does taxation do to the marketplace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author believes that the fundamental question used to evaluate a social system is whether or not the system acknowledges individual rights and bars the use of physical force, and whether or not man is a free individual or the property of the tribe. Evaluate the social and economic systems presented in this book using this question. Use appropriate examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Using information provided in the text, answer the following question: What is the purpose of the individual in capitalism?

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