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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. Who does the author predict will win when there is a conflict between groups with the same principles?

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

3. In the U.S., the economic system isn't a pure capitalist system but is what?

4. According to the author, the conflict for liberals and conservatives is between the state and whom?

5. McCarthyism is named for a senator from where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do the French businessmen say is the best thing the king could do for them?

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

7. What is one definition of capitalism that its supporters might use?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Why does Rand feel the U.S. system is headed for fascism? What arguments and evidence does she present to support her view? Cite examples from the book to support your answer.

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