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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Up in the Air.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1967.

2. Where was Tom Friedman at an education conference when a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans?
(a) Boise, ID.
(b) Phoenix, AZ.
(c) San Jose, CA.
(d) Portland, OR.

3. What, according to the authors, is the driver of the new reality that is making changes at a furious rate, as described in Chapter 4: "Up in the Air"?
(a) Commercialism.
(b) Information technology.
(c) Communism.
(d) Popular culture.

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

5. Google was founded by Larry Page and what other individual?
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) Mark Zuckerberg.
(c) Sergey Brin.
(d) Al Gore.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does NATO stand for?

4. What is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area?

5. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?

(see the answer key)

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