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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Nancy Pelosi served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to ______.
2. Since the United States does not have a single-payer health care system, there are over how many health agencies, all of which have different forms and standards?
3. During the Yom Kippur War, Syria and Egypt attacked territories Israel had captured in what war?
4. According to the author, state taxes were at a five-year low when oil prices surged to how much a barrel?
5. Goldman-Sachs argued that investing in commodities futures would reduce risk and yield __________.
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Taibbi conclude Chapter 4? What does the author remark regarding the motivations of the wealthy?
2. Where is most of the money in the American health care system tied up?
3. When did Richard Daley lease Chicago's parking meters? For how much money were they leased, as described in Chapter 5?
4. What changed the regulation for trust funds and pension funds, as described in Chapter 4?
5. How did the power structure of Congress change with Scott Brown's election in Chapter 6: The Trillion-dollar Band-Aid - Health Care Reform?
6. Why did Obama support giveaways to pharmaceutical companies, as discussed in Chapter 6?
7. What led up to OPEC's oil embargo in the 1970s, as described in Chapter 5?
8. What is the commodities market and how has it affected American finance?
9. How does Taibbi describe the design of Obamacare?
10. In Chapter 5, what does the author write of the correlation between decreasing taxes and rising prices?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of the news media in politics today. How has the media changed in the past 50 years and what have been the impacts of those changes?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the career of Matt Taibbi and the critical reception of the book. To what writers was Taibbi associated in regard to his style and themes?
Essay Topic 3
Define and analyze commodity index investing, the speculative commodities market and the commodities futures market. When did these terms and processes arise on Wall Street?
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