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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Objections to the school voucher plan include all but the following:
(a) there is the possibility of fraud
(b) it would decrease the quality of education
(c) there would be an increase in total costs of education
(d) there might be a constitutional church-state issue

2. In the tobacco economy, inflation occurred when there was:
(a) they switched to wampum
(b) too little tobacco
(c) no tobacco
(d) too much tobacco

3. The first schools were:
(a) `public with mandatory attendance
(b) private with voluntary attendance
(c) public with voluntary attendance
(d) private with mandatory attendance

4. Friedman believes that the income tax system is:
(a) in need of reform
(b) based on ability to pay
(c) equitable
(d) needs more loopholes

5. In the 1920s, what publications were the leading intellectual journals of opinion?
(a) the New York Times
(b) Life Magazine
(c) Newsweek
(d) the New Republic and the Nation

6. One way of restricting entry to an occupation or profession is through:
(a) rules
(b) laws
(c) licensure
(d) agreement

7. What did Pat Brennan and her husband do in Rochester, New York?
(a) they supported measures to limit the growth of business
(b) they challenged a postal increase
(c) they became lobbyists
(d) they established a business that competed with the United States Post Office

8. Government policies are affected by:
(a) the intellectual climate
(b) the desire of the press
(c) personal desires
(d) money

9. A school voucher program would:
(a) lower taxes
(b) have no effect on taxes paid
(c) raise taxes
(d) increase the costs of education

10. Which of the following is not a method of unions securing higher wages?
(a) the free market
(b) restricting jobs
(c) enforcing a higher wage
(d) collusion with the employer

11. What items have not functioned as money over time:
(a) metals
(b) dirt
(c) Cowrie shells
(d) beads

12. The union does all but the following for its members:
(a) negotiates wages
(b) pays for their on-the-job meals
(c) represents them in a grievance hearing
(d) negotiates terms of employment

13. Barter:
(a) establishes the value of money
(b) is the exchange ratio of money
(c) is the exchange of one good or service for another good or service
(d) is the exchange of money for goods and services

14. Most Western nations have experienced:
(a) decrease in the growth of government
(b) laws limited the growth of government
(c) no change in the size of national government
(d) growth of national government

15. Which kind of worker has no protection?
(a) states employees
(b) federal employees
(c) employees of a conglomerate
(d) workers with no possible employer

Short Answer Questions

1. The Environmental Protection Agency was formed in:

2. Parents who send their children to private schools:

3. All but the following have resulted from centralization in schooling:

4. The minimum wage causes:

5. During a hyperinflation:

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