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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Average Is Over.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Google was founded by Larry Page and what other individual?
(a) Al Gore.
(b) Bill Gates.
(c) Sergey Brin.
(d) Mark Zuckerberg.

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

3. How many years before Friedman arrived was a three-hour car ride from Beijing the only way to get to the over-populated city where Tom Friedman attended the World Economic Forum summer conference?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

4. A team from what country won the second prize in the the 2011 Association for Computing Collegiate Programming contest?
(a) Australia.
(b) Sweden.
(c) China.
(d) U.S.A.

5. What type of education do the authors assert is superior to one with a narrow focus in Chapter 7: "Average Is Over"?
(a) Mathematical education.
(b) Mechanical eduation.
(c) Liberal arts education.
(d) Business education.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the DuPont Corporation founded?

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

3. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?

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

5. When was Alexander Hamilton born?

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