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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 is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, known generically as polyamides, that were first produced on February 28, 1935, at the DuPont Experimental Station?
(a) Neoprene.
(b) Nylon.
(c) Kevlar.
(d) Vespel.

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

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

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

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

7. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the first?
(a) Politicians who support education.
(b) Students who are ready to learn while sitting in the classroom.
(c) Better teachers and principals.
(d) Involved parents.

8. What type of education do the authors assert is superior to one with a narrow focus in Chapter 7: "Average Is Over"?
(a) Mathematical education.
(b) Liberal arts education.
(c) Mechanical eduation.
(d) Business education.

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

10. 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 Marshall Plan.
(c) The Denali Plan.
(d) The New Deal.

11. 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) Microwave.
(c) Personal computer.
(d) Cell phone.

12. What is a proprietary voice over Internet Protocol service and software application originally created by David Somekh and owned by Microsoft since 2011?
(a) Myspace.
(b) Skype.
(c) Facebook.
(d) Twitter.

13. Who stabilized the country's economy by supporting legislation that saved capitalism and created social safety-nets like Social Security?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Bill Clinton.

14. 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 American Learning Campaign.
(c) The Teacher's and Professor's Union.
(d) The National Education Association.

15. What, according to the authors, is the driver of the new reality that is making changes at a furious rate, as described in Chapter 4: "Up in the Air"?
(a) Popular culture.
(b) Information technology.
(c) Commercialism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does NATO stand for?

2. What is the second pillar to prosperity?

3. What new type of attorney do the authors assert law firms are adding, as discussed in Chapter 5: "Help Wanted"?

4. What was the second factor about the new, flat world of globalization discussed in Chapter 4?

5. How many of the top ten prizes were awarded to Russian teams in the the 2011 Association for Computing Collegiate Programming contest?

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