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

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

3. What does "IT" stand for?
(a) Internet technology.
(b) Imaginative truth.
(c) Isotope table.
(d) Isometric technology.

4. 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) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

5. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the third?
(a) Business leaders committed to raising standards.
(b) Better teachers and principals.
(c) Politicians who support education.
(d) Taxpayers willing to support education.

Short Answer 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?

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. What is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area?

4. The Tea Party movement is a political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and ________.

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

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