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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Ignoring Our History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?
(a) Electrorail.
(b) Metrorail.
(c) Urbanrail.
(d) Cosmorail.

2. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?
(a) The Eastern Bloc.
(b) The Middle East.
(c) The United States.
(d) NATO.

3. According to the authors in Chapter 3: "Ignoring Our History," there are five pillars to prosperity that if ignored will be at America's peril. What is the first pillar?
(a) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(b) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.
(c) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.
(d) The doors to immigration must be kept open.

4. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?
(a) Some of the most important matters that are suffering from neglect are education, deficits and dept and climate change.
(b) We have stopped investing in our future.
(c) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.
(d) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.

5. When was Alexander Hamilton born?
(a) 1692.
(b) 1755.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1737.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Tom Friedman travel to China for the World Economic Forum summer conference?

3. The world-class high-speed train in China traveled how many miles per hour?

4. What governor of Philadelphia complained that America had gone soft when the NFL canceled some games because of a snowstorm?

5. The Tea Party movement is a political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and ________.

(see the answer key)

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