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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. What is the third major challenge that America faces?
(a) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(b) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.
(c) How to adapt to globalization.
(d) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.

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?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Harry Truman.

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

4. 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) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

5. Who is the co-author of the book along with Thomas L. Friedman?
(a) Michelle Bachmann.
(b) Ed Rendell.
(c) George Kennan.
(d) Michael Mandelbaum.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the context of United States constitutional interpretation, what is a principle of interpretation that tries to discover the original meaning or intent of the constitution?

3. What is the second pillar to prosperity?

4. What refers to an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons?

5. 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?

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