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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) Urbanrail.
(c) Electrorail.
(d) Metrorail.

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 New Deal.
(b) The Denali Plan.
(c) The Marshall Plan.
(d) Washington's Deal.

3. What refers to an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons?
(a) Charity.
(b) Obscurity.
(c) Disanthropy.
(d) Philanthropy.

4. The Cold War came to an end in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1989.
(d) 2001.

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?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second pillar to prosperity?

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

3. The Tea Party movement is a political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and ________.

4. Who stabilized the country's economy by supporting legislation that saved capitalism and created social safety-nets like Social Security?

5. What is the fifth pillar to prosperity?

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