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

2. Barack Obama taught constitutional law at what university?
(a) Harvard Law School.
(b) Yale University Law School.
(c) Boston College Law School.
(d) The University of Chicago Law School.

3. The Commodity Exchange Act was established under whose administration?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4. In 1991, Goldman-Sachs bought up a commodities trading company called ________.
(a) Solomon Edwards.
(b) Chase Bank.
(c) J. Aron.
(d) Wachovia.

5. During the Yom Kippur War, Syria and Egypt attacked territories Israel had captured in what war?
(a) The Syrian War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Seven-Day War.
(d) The Six-Day War.

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist of The Fountainhead is in what profession?

2. According to the author, the correlation between decreasing taxes and rising prices from ________ should not go unnoticed.

3. In Chapter 3, what process in which loans are split up and sold off to secondary investors as securities was used by banks?

4. According to the author, the top one percent of Americans own almost what percent of the wealth?

5. In 2008, what 24-year-old of San Bernardino, CA, quit school because she suddenly couldn't afford the gas that it took for the daily trip?

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