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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What U.S. President scrapped the monetary system so that the U.S. would not have to go through a recession due to the funding for the war in Vietnam?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Harry Truman.

2. What social networking site did Mark Zuckerberg develop?
(a) Twitter.
(b) Match.com.
(c) Facebook.
(d) Myspace.

3. When was Steve Jobs born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

4. How many times has Thomas L. Friedman won the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 7.

5. Political opponents of Barack Obama accused him of not thinking in terms of America's what, according to the authors?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Exceptionalism.
(d) Confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who insisted that the free market would establish the correct value of the world's currencies, according to the authors in Chapter 9: "The War on Math (and the Future)"?

2. According to the authors, it is through what that ideas are spawned and the spark of innovation is discovered, as described in Chapter 7: "Average Is Over"?

3. According to the authors, by ending the Cold War, America opened the global door to how many more people who would be living like us and would be competing for our jobs?

4. Robert Stevenson family's business remains in existence where?

5. What is a term describing philosophies which emphasize freedom, individual liberty, voluntary association and respect of property rights?

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