View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the sixth?
(a) Involved parents.
(b) Students who are ready to learn while sitting in the classroom.
(c) Better teachers and principals.
(d) Business leaders committed to raising standards.

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

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

4. According to the authors, Americans have to recognize that when a company moves off-shore or outsources many of its functions, we are not only losing current jobs but also __________.
(a) Past wages.
(b) Job apprehension.
(c) Jobs of the future.
(d) Market stagnation.

5. How many school districts are there in America?
(a) 14,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 8,500.
(d) 59,000.

6. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the fourth?
(a) Involved parents.
(b) Taxpayers willing to support education.
(c) Politicians who support education.
(d) Business leaders committed to raising standards.

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

8. What new type of attorney do the authors assert law firms are adding, as discussed in Chapter 5: "Help Wanted"?
(a) Criminal defense teams.
(b) Corporate municipal liasons.
(c) Copyright investigators.
(d) Chief innovation officers.

9. 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) Taxpayers willing to support education.
(d) Politicians who support education.

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

11. Three factors brought about the new, flat world of globalization, according to the authors in Chapter 4: "Up in the Air." Which factor was discussed first?
(a) The personal computer.
(b) The Department of Homeland Security.
(c) The development of the languages of the Internet.
(d) The Internet and the World Wide Web.

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

13. What is a browser-based operating system created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation?
(a) Myspace.
(b) Skype.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Geyser.

14. What is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area?
(a) GPS.
(b) Cell phone.
(c) Microwave.
(d) Personal computer.

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

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 an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters?

3. Who stabilized the country's economy by supporting legislation that saved capitalism and created social safety-nets like Social Security?

4. When did Tom Friedman travel to China for the World Economic Forum summer conference?

5. Of the four major challenges that the authors mention in Chapter 2, what is the first challenge that America faces?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 542 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample