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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. Governments intervene in foreign currency markets:
(a) by buying and selling domenstic and foreign currency
(b) by refusing to release currency to the market
(c) by increasing exports
(d) by increasing imports

2. The New Deal programs were not carried to their completion because of:
(a) the end of the Depression
(b) the government ran out of money
(c) World War II
(d) World War I

3. Kenneth B. Clark describes public school system as:
(a) on the same level as private schools
(b) superior to private schools
(c) inferior to private schools
(d) protected public monopolies

4. Trade restrictions create:
(a) increase levels of trade
(b) a good political situation
(c) a more competitive environment
(d) friction between nations

5. A school voucher program would:
(a) raise taxes
(b) have no effect on taxes paid
(c) lower taxes
(d) increase the costs of education

Short Answer Questions

1. The economist that changed the way of economic thinking regarding depressions was:

2. International trade theory is based on:

3. What words did Thomas Jefferson write?

4. Horace Mann is known as all but the following:

5. In the inner city schools, much of the money goes for all but the following:

(see the answer key)

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