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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 refers to an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons?
(a) Charity.
(b) Philanthropy.
(c) Disanthropy.
(d) Obscurity.

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

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

4. 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) Personal computer.
(d) Microwave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Cold War came to an end in what year?

2. 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?

3. How much time did it take to erect the conference building which housed the World Economic Forum summer conference?

4. When was the "Long Telegram" produced?

5. What is the fifth pillar to prosperity?

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