In a free market society, businesses ask the government to make laws and policies regulating the economy. t/f

No, this is false, or at least it should be false.

In a free market society, the economic activities should be regulated by the demand and supply relationship: the demand for certain goods and services and their supply.
However, in practice the businesses do ask the government for laws favorable for them: they do this in the form of lobbying.

Americans often speak of their country as one of several large regions.  these regions are cultural units rather than governmental units --  formed by history and geography and shaped by the economics, literature and folkways that all the parts of a region share. what makes one region different from another? a region's multicultural heritage as well as distinct demographic characteristics like age and occupation make regions different and special. within several regions, language is used differently and there are strong dialects. there are also differences in outlook and attitude based on geography.