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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. Which door is the best to use for sneaking into a theater?

2. What is a common disease in the hip community?

3. What are 'springing up all over the New Nation?'

4. What country has a lot of free land available?

5. What type of person is a good friend to have at the docks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How valid do you think Hoffman's advice in LIBERATE is today?

2. How can a person get free food in 'Amerika?' Do you think this advice is still valid?

3. How does Hoffman feel about the use of violence for achieving political goals?

4. What does Hoffman say about airlines? How valid are the advice and justifications that he gives?

5. What advice does Hoffman have for the layout of an underground paper?

6. Do you think that the publication of STEAL THIS BOOK was ultimately a positive or negative event in the history of freedom of expression?

7. What is trashing?

8. What advice does Hoffman have for the operators of underground radio stations?

9. What is yogurt? How can it be made at home?

10. What advice does Hoffman give for getting welfare benefits?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the importance of the 1960's in the cultural history of the United States and the world. What aspects of the 60s still are with us today? What seems to have faded?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay making a moral argument for or against the publication of books such as STEAL THIS BOOK.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the topic of recreational drugs, focusing on those mentioned by Hoffman in STEAL THIS BOOK. Be sure to address:

1) Issues surrounding the use and sale of drugs.

2) Issues with the prohibition of these drugs.

3) How you feel about the current state of narcotics laws in America.

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