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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 isolationism prevalent in the U.S.?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1960s.

2. William Petersen is a professor of what?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Government.
(c) Political science.
(d) Psychology.

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

4. The author believes that when smears take place, they are generally aimed at what?
(a) Political campaigns.
(b) Individuals.
(c) Beliefs in values or principles.
(d) Religious beliefs.

5. One of the tactics of this group is to paint capitalism as evil.
(a) Liberals.
(b) Dictators.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Communists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the governor of California when the protest at Berkeley in 1964 occurs?

2. Governor Romney says we do not have a system of capitalism but of what?

3. The author refers to the situation in which sacrifice is considered good and self-improvement is not as what?

4. When the author examines the situation in Viet Nam, the author reveals the belief that there is no _____ ______ for the U.S. there.

5. According to Fromm, what intensifies alienation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does taxation do to the marketplace?

9. How is property dealt with in fascism?

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

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