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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Help Wanted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the DuPont Corporation originally founded to manufacture?
(a) Opium.
(b) Stagecoaches.
(c) Dynamite.
(d) Gunpowder.

2. Of the four major challenges that the authors mention in Chapter 2, what is the first challenge that America faces?
(a) How to adapt to globalization.
(b) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.
(c) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.
(d) How to adjust to the IT revolution.

3. What word means to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area?
(a) Demoralize.
(b) Decentralize.
(c) Disembody.
(d) Disintegrate.

4. What was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism?
(a) The Denali Plan.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The Marshall Plan.
(d) Washington's Deal.

5. What was the second factor about the new, flat world of globalization discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) The development of the languages of the Internet.
(b) The Internet and the World Wide Web.
(c) The personal computer.
(d) The Department of Homeland Security.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a cable that became known as the "Long Telegram"?

2. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?

3. What is a browser-based operating system created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation?

4. The Cold War came to an end in what year?

5. What is the third pillar to prosperity?

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