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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Trillion-dollar Band-Aid - Health Care Refor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What NBC correspondent did Alan Greenspan marry?
(a) Andrea Mitchell.
(b) Michelle Kimble.
(c) Jane Pauley.
(d) Alexis Marcantel.

2. Who had to withdraw from a summer calculus class in San Francisco because he couldn't afford the gas for the commute?
(a) Robert Lukens.
(b) Leroy Marcus.
(c) Peter Carillo.
(d) Sam Serenda.

3. Alan Greenspan recommended the Reagan era increase in Social Security tax, and the rate went from 9.35% to ___________.
(a) 20.1%.
(b) 15.3%.
(c) 13.9%.
(d) 12.5%.

4. In what year did Alan Greenspan earn his M.A. degree in economics?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1950.

5. What is an independent self-regulatory organization and watchdog of the commodities and futures industry in the United States?
(a) The Farm Futures Commission.
(b) The Congressional Finance Commission.
(c) The Wikileaks Watchdog Corporation.
(d) The National Futures Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being Utopian?

2. The CFTC was created in what year?

3. When was Ayn Rand born?

4. In Atlas Shrugged, a group of men break off on their own and form __________.

5. When was Atlas Shrugged published?

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