Chapter 29

Quiz for Document 29-3: Wall Street (1987)

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Question 1

In the 1980s film Wall Street, the protagonist, Gordon Gekko, at his corporate command center, boasts: “I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed—for lack of a better word—is good. Greed is right. Greed works.” What are the character of Gekko and his philosophy meant to represent?

Question 2

In the still photograph taken from the film, the features of the office and the characteristics portrayed by actor Michael Douglas are meant to display

Question 3

The political triumph of free-market, deregulated capitalism became intimately associated with which of the following political figures?