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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. When did Tom Friedman travel to China for the World Economic Forum summer conference?
(a) June, 2009.
(b) August 2011.
(c) July, 2008.
(d) September, 2010.

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

3. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?
(a) The United States.
(b) The Middle East.
(c) NATO.
(d) The Eastern Bloc.

4. When was the "Long Telegram" produced?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1946

5. What is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, known generically as polyamides, that were first produced on February 28, 1935, at the DuPont Experimental Station?
(a) Kevlar.
(b) Vespel.
(c) Neoprene.
(d) Nylon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters?

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

3. 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?

4. The world-class high-speed train in China traveled how many miles per hour?

5. How many years before Friedman arrived was a three-hour car ride from Beijing the only way to get to the over-populated city where Tom Friedman attended the World Economic Forum summer conference?

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