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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Homework x 2 = The American Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area?
(a) Cell phone.
(b) GPS.
(c) Microwave.
(d) Personal computer.

3. What is a proprietary voice over Internet Protocol service and software application originally created by David Somekh and owned by Microsoft since 2011?
(a) Twitter.
(b) Myspace.
(c) Facebook.
(d) Skype.

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

5. What does "IT" stand for?
(a) Imaginative truth.
(b) Isotope table.
(c) Internet technology.
(d) Isometric technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Tom Friedman at an education conference when a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans?

2. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the fourth?

3. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?

4. When was the DuPont Corporation founded?

5. A team from what country won the second prize in the the 2011 Association for Computing Collegiate Programming contest?

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