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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Ignoring Our History.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism?
(a) The Marshall Plan.
(b) Washington's Deal.
(c) The New Deal.
(d) The Denali Plan.

3. What does NATO stand for?
(a) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(b) North Argentinian Treaty Organization.
(c) North African Trade Organization.
(d) North American Trade Organization.

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

5. Where in China did Tom Friedman attend the World Economic Forum summer conference?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Tianjin.
(c) Wuhan.
(d) Shanghai.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth major challenge that America faces?

2. Who saw to it that returning soldiers were given an advantage for serving the country with the institution of the GI Bill of Rights?

3. Who insisted that his own gravestone be marked with the fact that he had founded the University of Virginia?

4. What governor of Philadelphia complained that America had gone soft when the NFL canceled some games because of a snowstorm?

5. What is the second major challenge that America faces?

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