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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Ambiguous Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only way to cope the with economic stress of the market, according to Sellers?
(a) Invent labor-saving devices to allow more free time.
(b) Return to a pastoral place as often as possible.
(c) Internalize unhealthy coping mechanisms.
(d) Invest in the companies that make capitalism work for you.

2. How did Biddle ultimately make sure the Federal Bank would die, in Sellers's account?
(a) He overplayed his hand.
(b) He neglected to consider the cost of the federal debt in debt maintenance.
(c) He mismanaged the monetary supply.
(d) He played his policies just right.

3. What does Sellers say Thomas Jefferson's Republicanism emphasizes?
(a) Engagement.
(b) Equal distribution of wealth.
(c) Free trade.
(d) Isolationism.

4. What does capitalism result in, according to Sellers?
(a) The celebration of sex.
(b) The mechanicalization of sex.
(c) Repression of sex.
(d) The sterilization of sex.

5. What resulted from the changes that took place under Jackson?
(a) A neo-feudalist militaristic state.
(b) A repressive socialist regime.
(c) Our modern liberal democratic state.
(d) A confederation of independent states.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which direction does Sellers say John Story pushed Supreme Court jurisprudence?

2. Who would normally have prevented economic revolution from changing people's lives?

3. Where did DeWitt Clinton come from?

4. Who does Sellers say will subvert democratic sentiment if markets expand?

5. What did the antinomians believe in?

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