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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: Devaluation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Martin Dempsey born?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1966.

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

3. The Tea Party movement is a political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and ________.
(a) Libertarian.
(b) Athiest.
(c) Republican.
(d) Democratic.

4. What was the second factor about the new, flat world of globalization discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) The Department of Homeland Security.
(b) The personal computer.
(c) The Internet and the World Wide Web.
(d) The development of the languages of the Internet.

5. In March 2010, the majority of the finalists of the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search were the children of immigrants from where?
(a) Mexico and Australia.
(b) China and India.
(c) Germany and Canada.
(d) Bolivia and Kenya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was charged with the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

2. What state had been home to many of the largest defense contractors that have since been forced to close down, leaving millions unemployed?

3. Paul O'Neill was fired in what year for his public disagreement with the administration?

4. Senator James Inhofe serves what state?

5. What refers to an economic system characterized by social ownership or control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy?

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