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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of adults are illiterate in Detroit, Michigan, according to the authors?
(a) 47%.
(b) 68%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 34%.

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

3. How many times has Thomas L. Friedman won the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

4. What does "IT" stand for?
(a) Imaginative truth.
(b) Isotope table.
(c) Isometric technology.
(d) Internet technology.

5. The Tea Party movement has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1997.
(d) 2007.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bill Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of what company?

3. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?

4. Who was charged with the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

5. What word means to give (a person) the right to do or have something; qualify?

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