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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 in Chapter 3: "Ignoring Our History," there are five pillars to prosperity that if ignored will be at America's peril. What is the first pillar?
(a) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(b) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.
(c) The doors to immigration must be kept open.
(d) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?

2. What does NATO stand for?

3. What is the fourth pillar to prosperity?

4. What word means to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area?

5. What was the third factor discussed about the new, flat world of globalization?

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