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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. What is the second major challenge that America faces?
(a) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(b) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.
(c) How to adapt to globalization.
(d) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.

2. Where was Tom Friedman at an education conference when a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans?
(a) Boise, ID.
(b) Portland, OR.
(c) Phoenix, AZ.
(d) San Jose, CA.

3. What refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity?
(a) Capitolism.
(b) Globalization.
(c) Organization.
(d) Communism.

4. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?
(a) Metrorail.
(b) Urbanrail.
(c) Electrorail.
(d) Cosmorail.

5. According to the authors, Americans have to recognize that when a company moves off-shore or outsources many of its functions, we are not only losing current jobs but also __________.
(a) Job apprehension.
(b) Jobs of the future.
(c) Market stagnation.
(d) Past wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second pillar to prosperity?

2. What was the DuPont Corporation originally founded to manufacture?

3. When was Alexander Hamilton born?

4. In the context of United States constitutional interpretation, what is a principle of interpretation that tries to discover the original meaning or intent of the constitution?

5. What new type of attorney do the authors assert law firms are adding, as discussed in Chapter 5: "Help Wanted"?

(see the answer key)

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