Part 6

Quiz for Document P6-1: William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)

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Question 1

William Graham Sumner holds that humans have the natural right toA. land and a living wage.
B. life, liberty, and property.
C. the pursuit of happiness.
D. retain all they have acquired through struggle.

Question 2

Who, according to Sumner, is leading the effort to use government to take property from the “fit” and give it to society’s “less-than-fit?”A. Anarchists and terrorists
B. Communists and socialists
C. Humanitarians and reformers
D. The poor and disfranchised

Question 3

Sumner claims that, if society takes from the labors of the wealthy to give to those who have not labored, it puts the wealthy in a condition ofA. alienation.
B. disfranchisement.
C. poverty.
D. slavery.