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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: Whatever It Is, I'm Against It.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of Tea Party Republicans say there is no evidence of global warming, according to the authors in Chapter 10: "The War of Physics and Other Good Things"?
(a) 33.
(b) 70.
(c) 24.
(d) 51.

2. What is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion)?
(a) Jihad.
(b) Madrasah.
(c) Heyya.
(d) Salam.

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

4. 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) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

5. What refers to the process of thinking that questions assumptions?
(a) Critical thinking.
(b) Assumptive thinking.
(c) Presumptive thinking.
(d) Mundane thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the term "Jihad" appear in the Quran?

2. What is the fourth pillar to prosperity?

3. What is the second pillar to prosperity?

4. In a report entitled, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm," which was requested by Congress in 2005, statistics showed that funding of R&D as a percentage of GDP had declined by what percentage over forty years?

5. 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?

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