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Quiz for Document 18–3: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What did Lloyd think cities, factories, and monopolies had in common?

They were all controlled by immigrants.

All of them produced resentment in rural Americans.

They shared the same gluttonous bigness that marked a self-interested society.

All of them operated without any form of democratic government.

2. How did Lloyd regard the role of government in addressing the evils of monopolies?

He felt government had no right to regulate business.

He thought existing government policies failed to limit monopolies.

He lauded the success of antitrust legislation.

He decried government’s lack of attention to monopolies.

3. Which teaching of American society did Lloyd criticize?

That the strong should help the weak

That people should be motivated by self-interest

That wealth guaranteed corruption

That business should be conducted fairly