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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. 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) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Harry Truman.

2. When was Martin Dempsey born?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1959.

3. What is the third pillar to prosperity?
(a) Our infrastructure must be continually maintained and modernized.
(b) Public education must be provided for more and more Americans.
(c) Private economic activity must have necessary regulations.
(d) The doors to immigration must be kept open.

4. What word means to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area?
(a) Disembody.
(b) Demoralize.
(c) Decentralize.
(d) Disintegrate.

5. What was the second factor about the new, flat world of globalization discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) The Internet and the World Wide Web.
(b) The Department of Homeland Security.
(c) The development of the languages of the Internet.
(d) The personal computer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers?

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

3. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?

4. The world-class high-speed train in China traveled how many miles per hour?

5. What is the second pillar to prosperity?

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