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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. What is the fourth pillar to prosperity?
(a) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.
(b) The doors to immigration must be kept open.
(c) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(d) Basic research and development must be supported by the government.

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

3. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the sixth?
(a) Business leaders committed to raising standards.
(b) Better teachers and principals.
(c) Involved parents.
(d) Students who are ready to learn while sitting in the classroom.

4. When was the "Long Telegram" produced?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1946
(d) 1939.

5. When did Tom Friedman travel to China for the World Economic Forum summer conference?
(a) June, 2009.
(b) August 2011.
(c) July, 2008.
(d) September, 2010.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area?

2. Of the four major challenges that the authors mention in Chapter 2, what is the first challenge that America faces?

3. What is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene?

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

5. What was the third factor discussed about the new, flat world of globalization?

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