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

2. What was the DuPont Corporation originally founded to manufacture?
(a) Opium.
(b) Stagecoaches.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) Dynamite.

3. What is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, known generically as polyamides, that were first produced on February 28, 1935, at the DuPont Experimental Station?
(a) Nylon.
(b) Neoprene.
(c) Vespel.
(d) Kevlar.

4. Who stabilized the country's economy by supporting legislation that saved capitalism and created social safety-nets like Social Security?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) George W. Bush.

5. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?
(a) The Eastern Bloc.
(b) The United States.
(c) NATO.
(d) The Middle East.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity?

2. What is the third pillar to prosperity?

3. What is the fourth pillar to prosperity?

4. According to the authors in Chapter 3: "Ignoring Our History," there are five pillars to prosperity that if ignored will be at America's peril. What is the first pillar?

5. 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"?

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