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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 second?
(a) Better teachers and principals.
(b) Taxpayers willing to support education.
(c) Politicians who support education.
(d) Involved parents.

2. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?
(a) The Eastern Bloc.
(b) The United States.
(c) NATO.
(d) The Middle East.

3. What word means to give (a person) the right to do or have something; qualify?
(a) Clemency.
(b) Tolerate.
(c) Abatement.
(d) Entitlement.

4. What is the second 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.

5. What was the second factor about the new, flat world of globalization discussed in Chapter 4?
(a) The personal computer.
(b) The Internet and the World Wide Web.
(c) The development of the languages of the Internet.
(d) The Department of Homeland Security.

6. Where was Tom Friedman at an education conference when a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans?
(a) Portland, OR.
(b) San Jose, CA.
(c) Boise, ID.
(d) Phoenix, AZ.

7. The CEO of DuPont looks for employees who have ___________, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Presence.

8. Who is the co-author of the book along with Thomas L. Friedman?
(a) George Kennan.
(b) Michael Mandelbaum.
(c) Michelle Bachmann.
(d) Ed Rendell.

9. What was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism?
(a) Washington's Deal.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The Denali Plan.
(d) The Marshall Plan.

10. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?
(a) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.
(b) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.
(c) We have stopped investing in our future.
(d) Some of the most important matters that are suffering from neglect are education, deficits and dept and climate change.

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

12. The Tea Party movement is a political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and ________.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Republican.
(c) Athiest.
(d) Libertarian.

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

14. In the context of United States constitutional interpretation, what is a principle of interpretation that tries to discover the original meaning or intent of the constitution?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Originalism.

15. The Cold War came to an end in what year?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1994.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the DuPont Corporation originally founded to manufacture?

2. Who insisted that his own gravestone be marked with the fact that he had founded the University of Virginia?

3. The world-class high-speed train in China traveled how many miles per hour?

4. When was the DuPont Corporation founded?

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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