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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Help Wanted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what is the first cause for the decline of America?
(a) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.
(b) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.
(c) Some of the most important matters that are suffering from neglect are education, deficits and dept and climate change.
(d) We have stopped investing in our future.

2. What is the second pillar to prosperity?
(a) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.
(b) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(c) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.
(d) The doors to immigration must be kept open.

3. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?
(a) Some of the most important matters that are suffering from neglect are education, deficits and dept and climate change.
(b) We have stopped investing in our future.
(c) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.
(d) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.

4. Who insisted that his own gravestone be marked with the fact that he had founded the University of Virginia?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

5. What new type of attorney do the authors assert law firms are adding, as discussed in Chapter 5: "Help Wanted"?
(a) Corporate municipal liasons.
(b) Criminal defense teams.
(c) Chief innovation officers.
(d) Copyright investigators.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a cable that became known as the "Long Telegram"?

2. Who saw to it that returning soldiers were given an advantage for serving the country with the institution of the GI Bill of Rights?

3. When was Martin Dempsey born?

4. What does NATO stand for?

5. What was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism?

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