This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III. The New Alchemy, Chapters 13-15 Masquerade in Moscow; The Best Enemy Money Can Buy; The Lost Treasure Map.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What culture was the first to create a currency system based on gold and silver?
(a) Alexander the Great came up with the idea to make coins out of gold and silver.
(b) The ancient Greeks came up with the idea to make coins out of gold and silver.
(c) The British came up with the idea to make coins out of gold and silver.
(d) The ancient Romans came up with the idea to make coins out of gold and silver.

2. What country was formed after the second Russian revolution?
(a) New Poland was formed after the second Russian revolution.
(b) The USSR developed after the second Russian revolution.
(c) Kurdistan was formed after the Russian revolution.
(d) The country of Georgia was established after the second Russian revolution.

3. How did the government provide economic support to Lockheed Corporation in 1970?
(a) In 1970, Lockheed Corporation was made a unit of the Defense Department.
(b) In 1970, the US government agreed to pay Lockheed Corporation twenty-percent over their selling prices.
(c) In 1970, Lockheed Corporation had troubles and became a prime government contractor, another way of nationalizing private industry.
(d) In 1970, Lockheed Corporation was forgiven of all defense-related debt.

4. What resulted from the 1970 Penn Central Railroad bailout?
(a) More roads were built by the government as a result of the bailout.
(b) The 1970 Penn Central Railroad bailout resulted in government-owned Amtrak and privately owned Conrail.
(c) Travel in the US decreased as a result of the bailout.
(d) Air traffic increased after the bailout.

5. What was really behind the Russian Bolshevik Revolution?
(a) The Russian Bolshevik Revolution was not a revolution of and for the people, as history usually asserts, but the manipulations of foreign interests.
(b) The Russian Bolshevik Revolution was not a revolution of and for the people, as history usually asserts, but the manipulations of a handful of financiers.
(c) The Russian Bolshevik Revolution was a revolution of and for the people.
(d) The Russian Bolshevik Revolution was not a revolution of and for the people, as history usually asserts, but the manipulations the Axis Powers.