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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to fervent, sometimes militant, support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Partisan politics.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Terrorism.

2. When was Sarah Palin born?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1975.

3. When was John F. Kennedy born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1928.

4. Who insisted that the free market would establish the correct value of the world's currencies, according to the authors in Chapter 9: "The War on Math (and the Future)"?
(a) Lee Harvey Oswald.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Milton Friedman.

5. To what political party does Michelle Bachmann belong?
(a) Green.
(b) Republican.
(c) Communist.
(d) Democrat.

6. Arne Duncan stated that America was ranked what in the world in the number of college graduates per capita?
(a) Third.
(b) First.
(c) Ninth.
(d) Twentieth.

7. Senator James Inhofe refers to global warming as what?
(a) A Republican matter.
(b) An attempt at terrorism.
(c) A legitimate concern.
(d) A hoax.

8. Who succeeded John F. Kennedy after his assassination?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Richard Nixon.

9. When was Bill Gates born?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1955.

10. What is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety cover-ups at a nuclear power plant?
(a) China Town.
(b) China Rose.
(c) The China Syndrome.
(d) China Gate .

11. When did the Three Mile Island accident occur?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1979.

12. What percent of Tea Party Republicans say there is no evidence of global warming, according to the authors in Chapter 10: "The War of Physics and Other Good Things"?
(a) 70.
(b) 24.
(c) 51.
(d) 33.

13. When did the Iranian Revolution take place?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1967.

14. Paul O'Neill was fired in what year for his public disagreement with the administration?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

15. What is the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies?
(a) Lobbying.
(b) Unionizing.
(c) Protesting.
(d) Allegating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Michelle Bachmann represent in the United States House of Representatives?

2. When was Bill Clinton born?

3. Contraception accounts for what percentage of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's total services?

4. When was Michelle Bachmann born?

5. What refers to changes to the United States tax code passed during the presidency of George W. Bush that generally lowered tax rates and revised the code specifying taxation in the United States?

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