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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did it make sense to Perkins that big corporations funded colleges?
(a) Colleges needed funding.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Tax breaks.
(d) Professors would not expose the companies for fear of losing their job.

2. What did Robert McNamara create which set a precedent for the corporatocracy?
(a) A political campaign.
(b) A solid buisness plan.
(c) A military-industrial complex.
(d) A new currency.

3. What were some of the New Deal's policies?
(a) The right for immigrants to come to America.
(b) Liberty and justice to all.
(c) Application of fiscal policy and freedom of religion.
(d) To promote economic regulation, governmental financial manipulation, and extensive application of fiscal policy.

4. What was Perkins' impression of Jakarta?
(a) He had never seen such a clean city.
(b) He had never seen such desperation.
(c) He never travelled to Jakarta.
(d) He had never seen such wealth.

5. What did Perkins have to remind himself of at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) His phone number.
(b) His address.
(c) One day he would run MAIN.
(d) One day he would expose MAIN.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did Perkins' article have on MAIN's business practices in Panama?

2. What was Richard Nixon dressed as in Chapter 7?

3. What did Rasy's friends say would cause Americans to want to go to war?

4. What did conservatives swear at the end of Chapter 17?

5. Who was killed at the end of Chapter 7?

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