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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the protest at Berkeley in 1964 over a strip of land?
(a) Six days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Four days.

2. Who is the author of the chapter on "Alienation"?
(a) Nathaniel Burgandy.
(b) Nathaniel Branden.
(c) Nathaniel Burmond.
(d) Nathaniel Brady.

3. Sometimes legislators are open to _______, a fact which bewilders the public.
(a) Re-election.
(b) Changing their minds.
(c) Attack.
(d) Bribes.

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

5. Who writes an encyclical that expresses contempt for capitalism?
(a) Pope Peter VI.
(b) Pope Paul VI.
(c) Pope Platus VI.
(d) Pope Pius VI.

6. According to Fromm, what intensifies alienation?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Society.

7. In what type of system is property publicly owned and controlled?
(a) Authoritarianism.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

8. Who are the second scapegoats in a statist society, according to the author?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Professors.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Thinkers.

9. The author believes that, in society today, there are no what?
(a) Rights of the individual.
(b) Driven people.
(c) Visions of the future or goals.
(d) Free people.

10. McCarthyism is named for a senator from where?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Texas.
(c) California.
(d) Wisconsin.

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

12. Lobbying is the act of trying to influence whom?
(a) Owners.
(b) Capital markets.
(c) Legislators.
(d) Bankers.

13. Governor Romney says we do not have a system of capitalism but of what?
(a) Consumerism.
(b) Protectionism.
(c) Retaliation.
(d) Regulation.

14. Who wins the protest at Berkeley in 1964 over a strip of land?
(a) The chancellor.
(b) The protesters.
(c) The students.
(d) The professors.

15. How does the author refer to a principle?
(a) As a general truth.
(b) As a selected truth.
(c) As a discovered truth.
(d) As a proven truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are typical lobbyists?

2. The author believes that being free means freedom from what?

3. The author believes that when the ban on physical force is breached, then there is no what?

4. 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?

5. What do liberals and conservatives, according to the author, agree that there is a fight to save?

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