T he r eader ’

 
 

---

Chapter 3, Main Idea 13 
 
NAME______________________________DATE____________________SCORE__
____ 
 
 
 
TEST B
 
Write an essay which focuses on what you believe to be the characteristics of both a positive 
charismatic leader and a negative charismatic leader. Be sure to select charismatic leaders in 
history or current day arenas (politics, religion, military, etc.) as examples to support your points. 

---

14 Chapter 3, Main Idea 

---

NAME_____________________________DATE___________________ 
SCORE_________ 
CHAPTER 4: Details and Organizational Patterns
TEST A
 
Answer the multiple-choice questions following each passage. 
Two schools of thought present diametrically opposed views about what the role of 
people in the world should be, how serious the world’s present and projected future 
environmental and resource problems really are, and what should be done about them. 
Neo-
Malthusians
(called “gloom-and-doom pessimists” by their opponents) believe that if present 
trends continue, the world will become more crowded and more polluted, leading to greater 
political and economic instability and increasing the threat of nuclear war as the rich get richer 
and the poor get poorer. The term 
neo-Malthusian
refers to an updated and greatly expanded 
version of the hypothesis proposed in 1789 by Thomas Robert Malthus, an English clergyman 
and economist, that human population growing exponentially will eventually outgrow food 
supplies and will be reduced in size by starvation, disease, and war.
The opposing group, called