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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Alexander Hamilton born?
(a) 1692.
(b) 1737.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1805.

2. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?
(a) Cosmorail.
(b) Metrorail.
(c) Urbanrail.
(d) Electrorail.

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

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

5. 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) Politicians who support education.
(c) Taxpayers willing to support education.
(d) Better teachers and principals.

6. What is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers?
(a) The Education Union.
(b) The Teacher's and Professor's Union.
(c) The American Learning Campaign.
(d) The National Education Association.

7. 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"?
(a) Accidents.
(b) Play.
(c) Patience.
(d) Work.

8. Google was founded by Larry Page and what other individual?
(a) Mark Zuckerberg.
(b) Bill Gates.
(c) Al Gore.
(d) Sergey Brin.

9. What is the trademark of a range of durable, high-performance, polyimide-based plastics manufactured by DuPont?
(a) Neoprene.
(b) Vespel.
(c) Nylon.
(d) Kevlar.

10. What refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity?
(a) Globalization.
(b) Communism.
(c) Organization.
(d) Capitolism.

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

12. When was Martin Dempsey born?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1972.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, the best education is one that focuses on the three "C's." What is the first "C" discussed in Chapter 7: "Average Is Over"?

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

3. What word means to give (a person) the right to do or have something; qualify?

4. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the sixth?

5. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?

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