How Much Do You Know About Liberty ( a quiz)

2. Which great American patriot was called the "Prince of Smugglers"? 3. What bulwark of American liberty do we owe to the Antifederalists? 4. How many slaves were liberated by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? 5. After the Civil War, how did the fed eral and state governments oppress black people? 6. Why did states establish compulsory government schools? 7. What was the primary reason for the Sherman Antitrust Act? 12. How did government devastate farm ers during the Great Depression? 13. Name three New Deal policies that destroyed American jobs. 14. What effect did the New Deal have on the Great Depression? 15. Which three twentieth-century pres idents promised to keep America out of war-but maneuvered in? 16. About how many laws do U.S. legis lative bodies, from city councils to Con gress, enact each year: 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, 150,000? 17. About how many tariffs (import taxes) are there in the U.S. TariffCode: 100, 500, 1,000,5,000, 8,000?

18. Every year, Americans spend an es timated five billion hours unproductively wrestling with which U.S. regulations? 8. When was the last time an American 19. About how much do government regpresident responded to a depression by ulations cost Americans each year: $100 cutting government taxes and spending-billion, $200 billion, $400 billion, $600 biland what were the results? lion? 9. When and why did organized crime get started in the United States? 10. Which powerful u.S. government agency was established to assure monetary stability-but became a major factor re sponsible for the Great Depression? 11. Why did 61 nations raise their tariffs on American products after 1930? 20. What do these cherished pleasures of American life have in common: cowboys, hamburgers, movies, oranges, bowling, frankfurters, tomatoes, swimming, pizza, libraries, peas, onions, railroads, potatoes, salsa, picnics, symphony orchestras, and Christmas trees?

Answers appearon pages 470-472. 463 464 BOOKS Do the Right Thing by Walter E. Williams Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. 1995 • 83 pages. $15.95 paperback Reviewed by John Robbins D r. Walter Williams, Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Virginia, a syndicated columnist for the past 15 years, has col lected his best newspaper columns from 1990 to 1994, sorted them into seven cate gories, and published them under the title Do the Right Thing. Young Walter Williams grew up in a North Philadelphia housing project in the 1930s and '40s. He thanks his mother, who "having been abandoned by her husband, raised two children by herself through dif ficult times. She is the one who gave me a spirit of rebelliousness [and] taught me hard lessons about independence and discipline. . . ." He later went on to earn his doctorate in economics from UCLA. Dr. Williams also thanks Providence' 'that enabled him to have teachers in high school and professors in college who didn't give a damn about what color I was and held me accountable to high standards."