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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 is the fifth pillar to prosperity?
(a) The doors to immigration must be kept open.
(b) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(c) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.
(d) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.

2. What governor of Philadelphia complained that America had gone soft when the NFL canceled some games because of a snowstorm?
(a) Ed Rendell.
(b) George Kennan.
(c) George Kaufman.
(d) Michael Mandelbaum.

3. What is the second pillar to prosperity?
(a) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(b) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.
(c) The doors to immigration must be kept open.
(d) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.

4. Who saw to it that returning soldiers were given an advantage for serving the country with the institution of the GI Bill of Rights?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Harry Truman.

5. What new type of attorney do the authors assert law firms are adding, as discussed in Chapter 5: "Help Wanted"?
(a) Criminal defense teams.
(b) Copyright investigators.
(c) Corporate municipal liasons.
(d) Chief innovation officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Tea Party movement has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?

2. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?

3. How many years before Friedman arrived was a three-hour car ride from Beijing the only way to get to the over-populated city where Tom Friedman attended the World Economic Forum summer conference?

4. What refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity?

5. Who was Facebook founded by?

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