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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. Barack Obama previously served as a United States Senator from what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Washington.
(d) California.

2. Barack Obama led a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against whom?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) John McCain.
(d) Sarah Palin.

3. What, according to the author, had been designed as a massive political deal with big giveaways to pharmaceutical companies in the form of subsidies and a big gift to the insurance industry in the form of the individual mandate?
(a) Obamacare.
(b) The Congressional Committee for Health Reform.
(c) The Congressional Committee for Finance.
(d) Capitalism.

4. Where did Alan Greenspan study clarinet from 1943 to 1944?
(a) New York University.
(b) Boston College.
(c) The Juilliard School.
(d) Harvard University.

5. Nancy Pelosi served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to ______.
(a) 2011.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2010.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Uniform Prudent Investor Act enacted?

2. In what year did Alan Greenspan earn his M.A. degree in economics?

3. When was The Fountainhead published?

4. Alan Greenspan joined the Richard Nixon campaign in what year?

5. When was Barack Obama inaugurated as President of the United States?

(see the answer key)

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