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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 governor of Philadelphia complained that America had gone soft when the NFL canceled some games because of a snowstorm?
(a) George Kennan.
(b) Ed Rendell.
(c) George Kaufman.
(d) Michael Mandelbaum.

2. When was the DuPont Corporation founded?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1833.

3. Who was Facebook founded by?
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) Mark Zuckerberg.
(d) Sergey Brin.

4. 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) Popular culture.
(b) Information technology.
(c) Commercialism.
(d) Communism.

5. Of the four major challenges that the authors mention in Chapter 2, what is the first challenge that America faces?
(a) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.
(b) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.
(c) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(d) How to adapt to globalization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a browser-based operating system created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation?

2. 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 __________.

3. Google was founded by Larry Page and what other individual?

4. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?

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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