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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. The Tea Party movement is an American populist political movement that has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2009.

2. AIG was listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average from _________ to September 22, 2008.
(a) March 12, 2008.
(b) April 8, 2004.
(c) September 19, 2005.
(d) August 5, 2003.

3. What refers to trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values?
(a) Bubble economy.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Free-market economics.

4. What refers to the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it?
(a) Observationalism.
(b) Embargo.
(c) Contextualism.
(d) Emigration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nancy Pelosi has represented the 8th Congressional District of what state?

2. When was the Uniform Prudent Investor Act enacted?

3. Barack Obama previously served as a United States Senator from what state?

4. In international relations, what refers to a re-establishment of cordial relations, as between two countries?

5. What refers to a financial market where participants can issue new debt, known as the Primary market, or buy and sell debt securities, known as the Secondary market, usually in the form of bonds?

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