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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the metropolis of Los Angeles characterized?
(a) Sprawling and horizontal.
(b) Vertical and compact.
(c) Flowing and efficient.
(d) Centralized.

2. What does William H. Fry of the University of Michigan call the migration from southern California to the Rocky Mountain West?
(a) "The rage migration".
(b) "The unskilled labor movement".
(c) "The new white flight".
(d) "The white wave".

3. What is the name of the religious group that James Dobson moves to Colorado Springs from Pomona, California?
(a) Church of the Resurrection.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Focus on the Family.
(d) The Seventh Day Adventists.

4. Gaining the McNugget contract turns which company into the nation's largest chicken processor?
(a) Williams Chicken Coporation.
(b) Archer Daniels Midland.
(c) McNabb Hens.
(d) Tyson Foods.

5. Who stages the "Success" seminar that Feamster and his employees attend at McNichos arena?
(a) Dale Carnegie.
(b) Peter Lowe.
(c) Tony Robbins.
(d) John Travolta.

6. To which organization is Wernher von Braun a member during World War II?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The German Marxists.
(c) The NAZI party.
(d) The French Resistance.

7. What is the largest daily newspaper in Colorado Springs?
(a) The Daily Reader.
(b) The RockyMountain Tribune.
(c) The Gazette-Telegraph.
(d) The Register.

8. Where is the potato museum in Idaho?
(a) Boise.
(b) Yellowstone.
(c) Aberdeen.
(d) Blackfoot.

9. Colorado has lost how many acres of ranch land to development in the last twenty years?
(a) 200,000.
(b) Twenty million.
(c) 450,000.
(d) 1.5 million.

10. According to historian Harvey Levenstein, when was the "Golden Age of Food Processing"?
(a) The 1950's.
(b) The 1940's.
(c) The 1970's.
(d) The 1960's.

11. What do the McDonald brothers call their system of service?
(a) The Super Service System.
(b) The Speedee Service Sytem.
(c) The Efficiency System.
(d) The Independent Service System.

12. Who is last to speak at the "Success" seminar and "cuts through all the snake oil", saying that all the conventional goals people have don't really matter?
(a) Nancy Pelosi.
(b) Christopher Reeve.
(c) Mark Harmon.
(d) Stephen Hawking.

13. What is phosphate used for in potato farming?
(a) Preservatives.
(b) Irrigation.
(c) Fertilizer.
(d) Pesticide.

14. The receipt of a tax break by ranchers for donating future development rights to a Colorado land trust is called a ________.
(a) Truncated write-off.
(b) Conservation easement.
(c) Farewell write-off.
(d) Trust easement.

15. What is the nickname for the McDonald's operations and training manual assembled by Fred Turner in 1958?
(a) The Way.
(b) The Book.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Paper Weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founds Dunkin' Donuts?

2. McDonaldland borrows its distinctive look from where?

3. Who benefits most from the big tax deductions from donating to the Colorado land trusts?

4. Which president enacts the Interstate Highway Act, modeled after Adolph Hitler's autobahn system?

5. What type of monopoly is where there is a market of a small number of buyers exert power over a large number of sellers?

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