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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: Whatever It Is, I'm Against It.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, the major goal of the modern Democratic Party is to preserve the social networks created during whose administration?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. What, according to the authors, is the driver of the new reality that is making changes at a furious rate, as described in Chapter 4: "Up in the Air"?
(a) Communism.
(b) Information technology.
(c) Popular culture.
(d) Commercialism.

3. Who tried to imagine what it would have been like if there had been a 24/7 cable news cycle when the Constitution was being written in Chapter 12: "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It"?
(a) Milton Friedman.
(b) Lindsay Graham.
(c) Dick Cheney.
(d) George W. Bush.

4. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill tried to warn who that the tax cuts the administration planned would pose a threat to the economy?
(a) Milton Friedman.
(b) Lindsay Graham.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Dick Cheney.

5. What was the third factor discussed about the new, flat world of globalization?
(a) The development of the languages of the Internet.
(b) The personal computer.
(c) The Internet and the World Wide Web.
(d) The Department of Homeland Security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity?

2. Contraception accounts for what percentage of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's total services?

3. What refers to changes to the United States tax code passed during the presidency of George W. Bush that generally lowered tax rates and revised the code specifying taxation in the United States?

4. When was John F. Kennedy born?

5. What refers to a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on December 18, 2010?

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