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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: The War on Math (and the Future).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Steve Jobs was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of what company?
(a) Apple Inc.
(b) Microsoft.
(c) Xerox.
(d) Canon.

2. Who insisted that the free market would establish the correct value of the world's currencies, according to the authors in Chapter 9: "The War on Math (and the Future)"?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Lee Harvey Oswald.
(d) Milton Friedman.

3. What refers to fervent, sometimes militant, support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea?
(a) Partisan politics.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Dictatorship.

4. The Cold War came to an end in what year?
(a) 1989.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1994.

5. According to the authors, by ending the Cold War, America opened the global door to how many more people who would be living like us and would be competing for our jobs?
(a) 2 billion.
(b) 375 million.
(c) 950 million.
(d) 50 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters?

2. What word means to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area?

3. What was the DuPont Corporation originally founded to manufacture?

4. What type of education do the authors assert is superior to one with a narrow focus in Chapter 7: "Average Is Over"?

5. When did Ronald Reagan's presidency begin?

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