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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, What's Wrong with Our Schools?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All but the following have resulted from centralization in schooling:
(a) larger scale units
(b) more choice for consumers
(c) less choice for consumers
(d) increased power for administrators

2. The first head of the Federal Reserve System was:
(a) Benjamin Strong
(b) Alan Greenspan
(c) Alexander Hamilton
(d) J.P. organ

3. Horace Mann is known as all but the following:
(a) the father of American public education
(b) crusader for free schools
(c) secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education
(d) Secretary of State

4. The Employment Act of 1946 dictated government's responsibility for all but the following:
(a) purchasing power
(b) production
(c) employment
(d) taxes

5. What functions as the central bank for the United States?
(a) the Bank of England
(b) the Bank of the United States
(c) Chase Bank
(d) the Federal Reserve System

Short Answer Questions

1. What program would allow greater choices for parents?

2. An egalitarian supports:

3. International trade theory is based on:

4. The major welfare program in the United States is:

5. Which of the following is not a New Deal program?

(see the answer key)

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