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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Up in the Air.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fourth major challenge that America faces?
(a) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.
(b) How to adapt to globalization.
(c) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(d) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.

2. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

3. 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 adjust to the IT revolution.
(c) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.
(d) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.

4. 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) 375 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 950 million.
(d) 2 billion.

5. 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) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.
(d) The doors to immigration must be kept open.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on December 18, 2010?

3. Where was Tom Friedman at an education conference when a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans?

4. Who insisted that his own gravestone be marked with the fact that he had founded the University of Virginia?

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

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