Question 1
The independent treasury bill enacted during the Van Buren administration
a. was designed to help banks survive the economic crisis that began in 1837.
b. stimulated the use of paper currency.
c. required all government funds to be kept in a central treasury.
d. was a deflationary economic measure.
Question 2
Humanity's naive self-love, according to Freud, has undergone which bitter blow?
a. The Bible damned humanity, Copernicus removed humanity from the center of the universe, and psychoanalysis has shown that humanity is not even in charge of its own mind.
b. Greek rationalism denied humanity a relationship with the divine, scholasticism denied the autonomy of human reason, and Newton embedded humanity in a mechanical uncaring world.
c. Christianity has taught humanity to hate itself, Copernicus removed humanity from the center of God's attention, and Darwin denied the existence of God.
d. Scholasticism denied the autonomy of human reason, Darwin denied humanity's separation from the animal world, and Nietzsche denied the usefulness of human reason.
e. Copernicus removed humanity from the center of the universe, Darwin denied humanity's separation from the animal world, and psychoanalysis has shown that humanity is not even in charge of its own mind.