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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Who Protects the Worker?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The railroads:
(a) used the ICC to support their price fixing and market sharing agreementsq
(b) refused to join the ICC
(c) ignored the ICC
(d) bitterly opposed the formation of the ICC

2. What must an interstate public carrier have in order to operate?
(a) certificate of public convenience and necessity
(b) a big trucking company
(c) none of the above
(d) permission from the state

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

4. Children from wealthy backgrounds have better chances in education and employment. This it not representative of:
(a) equal rights
(b) equality of opportunity
(c) equality of outcomes
(d) equality before God

5. The reason given for regulation of industry is to:
(a) protect the industry from the effects of competition
(b) force higher prices
(c) protect the consumer
(d) stabilize the industry

Short Answer Questions

1. International trade theory is based on:

2. At the time the book was written, how many workers belonged to unions?

3. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated in:

4. Kenneth B. Clark describes public school system as:

5. Who has the greatest amount of choice in the selection of schooling?

(see the answer key)

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