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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. From what university did Henry Kissinger earn his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Tufts University.

2. Five years prior to the moment Priscilla Carillo started living in her car, the commodity indices rose from $13 billion to what amount?
(a) $200 billion.
(b) $893 billion.
(c) $317 billion.
(d) $143 billion.

3. Nancy Pelosi is the Minority Leader of ______________.
(a) The United States House of Representatives.
(b) The United States House of State.
(c) The United States Senate.
(d) The United States Supreme Court.

4. Who negotiated an Israel withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula as well as an end to the oil embargo by OPEC?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Henry Kissinger.
(d) James Edwards.

5. What refers to the part of the capital markets that deals with the issuance of new securities?
(a) Secondary market.
(b) Speculative market.
(c) Derivatives market.
(d) Primary market.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alan Greenspan born?

2. What is a private, actively managed investment fund that utilizes sophisticated strategies in international and/or domestic markets, offsets losses during a market downturn, and/or generates returns higher than traditional stock and bond investments?

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

4. According to the author, state taxes were at a five-year low when oil prices surged to how much a barrel?

5. OPEC is an intergovernmental organization of how many developing countries?

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