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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. What allows GE to expand markets and find new customers?

2. When GE bought RCA in 1985, which national television station was included in the deal?

3. As Jack expands GE into globalization, what happens to U.S. jobs and facilities?

4. Which country's air force benefits from laundered GE money?

5. What kind of acquisitions does Jack pass up in the late 1990s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly tell how employee surveys change GE in the mid 1990s and what results from the surveys.

2. How does Jack learn to play golf and why is the sport important to him?

3. When does Jack begin the search for his successor, and how does he want to change the process of finding the company's next CEO?

4. How do technology and information systems change GE's service business fundamentals?

5. Discuss the importance of "Black Belts" and "Green Belts" in the GE corporate climate.

6. How does e-business change the role of a GE salesperson?

7. Briefly discuss how globalization affects GE's development and American facilities.

8. How do the services offered by GE Capital change from the 1970s to the 1990s?

9. Discuss how GE enters the medical ultrasound field in 2000.

10. Briefly, why is Honeywell a good business for GE to buy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the scope of a work of nonfiction. What is the scope of Jack: Straight from the Gut?

Essay Topic 2

How important are the qualifications of the creator in this book? What questions can a reader ask to determine the creator's qualifications?

Essay Topic 3

What is the writer's purpose of this book? Explain your answer and support it with text from the book.

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