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"I want a new pair of shoes." You should:
A) Demand them from the government
B) Get all your friends to give you money to get shoes
C) Find a way to sell your time for money to buy them
C. Find a way to raise the capital
We need food- who should run the farms?
A) Farmers
B) Government-certified agricultural specialist
C) The Minister of Health and Nutrition
A) Obviously Farmers
What is one way MANY people have gotten wealthy of capitalism?
A) They saved their money
B) They turned their hobby or invention into something people loved or wanted
C)They won at a casino
B) Under Capitalism you can turn your hobby into a career!
The Communist manifesto was written by this pair of philosophers-
A) Jim and Beam
B) Marx and Engals
C) Mickey and Minny
B) Marx and Engals
This country has a red flag with a yellow star on it and is known for its inexpensive food, served in a box.
A) Russia
B) Cuba
C) China
China
"There should be world peace." How can you get that
A) Set off lots of bombs; no people = no fighting
B) Accept that some groups cannot co-exist and do your best to protect your own community
C) Talk rationally with people and convince them to be peaceful
B) Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst
We need safe streets. Who should we trust?
A) Local police from our communities
B) Secret police who have spies everhwere
C) The Military
a) is the best answer most of the time
What is capital in an economic sense?
A) What a person uses to start a business
B) The place politicians meet
C) What rich people horde
A) What a person uses to start a business
This can mean money, time, a skill, relationships etc!
This person brough Communist ideals to Russia after being kicked out of Germany
A) Lennin
B) Hitler
C) Von Doofenshmirtz
A) Lennin
Under Chairman Mao, China's first Communist leader, how many people starved to death in "The Great Leap Forward?"
A) 15- 46 million
B) 15
C) 10 thousand
15 million and 46 million people died
Fun Fact: Florida’s population in 2026 is approximately 23,659,198
"I want everyone to have medical care." Great! How?
A) Create incentives to encourage people to become doctors
B) Force doctors to accept everyone as a patient
C) Create a socialized healthcare system
A) Incentives tend to work better than force
You need clothes, furniture, cars, and studd. Where should you get those from?
A) The national factory- they can make everything
B) The home, we can make everything oursleves
C) People who know how to make, buy, trade, and sell products
C) That's going to be the one that makes the most sense in our time.
This is what determines success in most businesses
A) Luck
B) Hard work
C) Knowing your customers
C) Knowing your customers
All the luck and hard work will never beat a businessman who knows what his customers want!
Which group of people always starts socialist revolutions?
A) Poor working people
B) The wealthy educated class
C) Bored university students with no life experience and lots of energy
C) Students
Communism works very well, up to THIS number of people:
A) 14
B) 100
C) 12,674
100 people
"I want to be rich." Ok, how?
A) Find something that people want or need and find a way to sell it to them
B) Take from the rich
C) Scam people (they should know better)
A) Create your wealth honestly
We need entertainment! From where?
A) Eachother! Who needs TV or movies!
B) Entertainer who become popular based on people choosing towatch them or listen to them
C) Whomever the government thinks is appropriate to entertian the masses. Laugh. or go to jail.
B) Do you really want people like our governor choosing what is entertaining?
Under capitalism you can be a communist, socialist, anarchist, pacifist, whatever!
True
False
TRUE
As long as you pay your taxes and don't break the law, under a capitalist system you will be left alone!
You are allowed to be a Communist in the United States
A) Yes
B) No
A) Yes, in the USA, you can have all the bad ideas you want, live on a commune with your friends, and leave the rest of us alone.
How many countries have successfully run as a communist state?
*Success is defined as increasing human flourishing and decreasing human misery.
A) 20
B) 10
C) 0
Zero 0
I want my enemies to go away forever!
A) Great- tell the secret police they said something about the leader
B) We all do; deal with it or make up
C) Get people together and "purge the neighborhood" to keep the community safe
B) Don't snitch and don't commit genocide
We need liberty and freedom.
A)Yes you do, that's why you can stand up for yourself
B) Of yourse you do, that's why we purged all the people who would deny you your liberty.
C) Oh you do? Face the wall and close your eyes.
A) I hope you chose this one.
Who can be successful in a capitalist system?
A) Anyone who works hard and knows how to use their human capital effectively and efficiently
B) Rich people who cheat
C) Only the people who can bribe politicians
A) Anyone who works hard and knows how to use their human capital effectively and efficiently
The trick is knowing how to use your human capital
What was the body count of communist regimes in the 1900s
A) 100,000
B) 9
C) 85 million to 100 million
C) Most of those deaths are from starvation
What is the end goal of the ideology of Communism?
A) Parades
B) Medicare for All
C)Total Global Control
Everyone is under the global communist state