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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. What program would allow greater choices for parents?
(a) being able to select any school
(b) sending children to private schools
(c) the school voucher program
(d) making all education private

2. Which of the following is not a New Deal program?
(a) social security
(b) Great Society
(c) public assistance
(d) unemployment insurance

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

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. New Deal temporary programs included all but:

2. The United States banking system is:

3. The Great Depression began in:

4. An exchange rate is the:

5. Government subsidies to industry are viewed as:

(see the answer key)

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