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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: The War of Physics and Other Good Things.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second major challenge that America faces?
(a) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(b) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.
(c) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.
(d) How to adapt to globalization.

2. By 2016, the gross national debt is estimated to be how much, according to the authors in Chapter 9: "The War on Math (and the Future)"?
(a) $8 trillion.
(b) $950 billion.
(c) $2.8 trillion.
(d) $16 trillion.

3. According to the authors, there are three mindsets when thinking about being a creative creator or a creative server. What is the third?
(a) Think like an artisan.
(b) Think like a teacher.
(c) Think like an immigrant.
(d) Think like a waitress.

4. When was the DuPont Corporation founded?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1802.

5. Who wrote a cable that became known as the "Long Telegram"?
(a) Ed Rendell.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) George Kennan.
(d) Michael Mandelbaum.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Ayatollah Khomeini born?

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

3. What is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety cover-ups at a nuclear power plant?

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?

5. When did Ronald Reagan implement his free-market economics?

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