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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Harry Truman.

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

3. When was Arne Duncan born?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1943.

4. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?
(a) Metrorail.
(b) Electrorail.
(c) Urbanrail.
(d) Cosmorail.

5. When was John F. Kennedy born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship first became popular with kids in high crime areas in New York because in addition to teaching them math and reading, it focused on how they could do what?

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

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

4. In March 2010, the majority of the finalists of the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search were the children of immigrants from where?

5. When was James Inhofe born?

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