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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Paul O'Neill born?

3. When did Ronald Reagan implement his free-market economics?

4. Who is the founder of Teach for America?

5. What is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are examples used by the authors to demonstrate great success in Chapter 14?

2. How do the authors describe the impact of the Tea Party in 2010?

3. How are the finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search described in Chapter 11?

4. What examples do the authors make of Wendy Kopp and Robert Stevenson?

5. When was the gold standard scrapped? What do the authors say regarding this in Chapter 9?

6. What do the authors say is the reasoning behind Michele Bachmann's comment and those who believed it?

7. What was the impact of the Iranian Revolution?

8. How do the authors describe the beginning of the twenty-first century?

9. What did Arne Duncan relate about American education?

10. How did the Republican Party change in the 1960s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss education in America today. How do you feel your education compares to education in countries like China or Japan, or to European nations? Do you feel there is a lack of drive in American education? Why or why not? How do the authors feel about this subject?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Milton Friedman, President Nixon's Administration, and the history of deficit spending. What did Milton Friedman project would happen with a free market economy? How was the American economy affected by leaving the gold standard?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact of the Tea Party and analyze the five pillars to prosperity discussed in Chapter 3. Where did the authors derive this list? How do the authors surmise the Tea Party disagrees with this theory? What major policies have been enacted by prominent politicians within the movement? How have the American people been affected by those policies?

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