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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. Where was Thomas L. Friedman born?
(a) Fargo, North Dakota.
(b) Madison, Wisconsin.
(c) St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
(d) Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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

3. When was Michelle Bachmann born?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1948.

4. 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)"?
(a) Lee Harvey Oswald.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Milton Friedman.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?

2. Contraception accounts for what percentage of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's total services?

3. Where in China did Tom Friedman attend the World Economic Forum summer conference?

4. According to the Pew Center, state governments collectively face what unfunded amount in liability according to the authors in Chapter 9: "The War on Math (and the Future)"?

5. Who do the authors assert is a political icon for the Republican Party?

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