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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Jobs of the future.
(b) Market stagnation.
(c) Job apprehension.
(d) Past wages.

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

3. According to the authors, what is the first cause for the decline of America?
(a) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.
(b) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.
(c) Some of the most important matters that are suffering from neglect are education, deficits and dept and climate change.
(d) We have stopped investing in our future.

4. Michelle Bachmann dropped out of the bid for U.S. Presidency during the 2012 campaign after coming in sixth in what caucus?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Wyoming.

5. What position does Arne Duncan currently hold?
(a) United States Secretary of Education.
(b) United States Secretary of The Treasury.
(c) United States Secretary of Energy.
(d) United States Secretary of Labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a cable that became known as the "Long Telegram"?

2. What U.S. President scrapped the monetary system so that the U.S. would not have to go through a recession due to the funding for the war in Vietnam?

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

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

5. In what year did the government end the international monetary system established in 1944 which had tied the dollar to the price of gold?

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