View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Electrorail.
(d) Cosmorail.

3. How many of the top ten prizes were awarded to Russian teams in the the 2011 Association for Computing Collegiate Programming contest?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

4. 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 an immigrant.
(b) Think like a teacher.
(c) Think like a waitress.
(d) Think like an artisan.

5. 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) Play.
(b) Patience.
(c) Work.
(d) Accidents.

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

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

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

9. Of the four major challenges that the authors mention in Chapter 2, what is the first challenge that America faces?
(a) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(b) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.
(c) How to adapt to globalization.
(d) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.

10. 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) George W. Bush.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

11. The Tea Party movement has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?
(a) 1997.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2007.
(d) 1992.

12. 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 an immigrant.
(b) Think like a waitress.
(c) Think like an artisan.
(d) Think like a teacher.

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

14. 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 development of the languages of the Internet.
(b) The Department of Homeland Security.
(c) The Internet and the World Wide Web.
(d) The personal computer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Steve Jobs born?

3. 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"?

4. What is the fifth pillar to prosperity?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 621 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample