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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the sixth?
(a) Business leaders committed to raising standards.
(b) Involved parents.
(c) Better teachers and principals.
(d) Students who are ready to learn while sitting in the classroom.

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

3. When was the DuPont Corporation founded?
(a) 1785.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1833.

4. According to the authors, the best education is one that focuses on the three "C's." What is the third "C" discussed in Chapter 7: "Average Is Over"?
(a) Athletic champions.
(b) Effective communication.
(c) Critical thinking.
(d) Successful collaboration.

5. What is a browser-based operating system created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation?
(a) Geyser.
(b) Skype.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Myspace.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene?

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?

5. What is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, known generically as polyamides, that were first produced on February 28, 1935, at the DuPont Experimental Station?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are employers looking for in workers today according to the authors in Chapter 5: "Help Wanted"?

2. What do the authors assert regarding outsourcing?

3. What are the five pillars of prosperity described by the authors in Chapter 3?

4. What is responsible for the growing lack of jobs in America, according to the authors in Chapter 4?

5. What do the authors assert the CEO of DuPont seeks in employees?

6. What are the six crucial elements to improving America's educational system?

7. What were the results of the 2011 Association for Computing Collegiate Programming contest, according to the authors in Chapter 6: "Homework x 2 = The American Dream"?

8. What examples are given for America's decline in ambition?

9. In Chapter 2, how do the authors describe the "Long Telegram"?

10. What do the authors assert Americans must do in order to compete?

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