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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: The War on Math (and the Future).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 an artisan.
(c) Think like a teacher.
(d) Think like a waitress.

3. When was the "Long Telegram" produced?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1946
(d) 1917.

4. In what year did the government end the international monetary system established in 1944 which had tied the dollar to the price of gold?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1927.

5. Google was founded by Larry Page and what other individual?
(a) Sergey Brin.
(b) Bill Gates.
(c) Al Gore.
(d) Mark Zuckerberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Steve Jobs was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of what company?

2. What U.S. President scrapped the monetary system so that the U.S. would not have to go through a recession due to the funding for the war in Vietnam?

3. Who wrote a cable that became known as the "Long Telegram"?

4. What is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene?

5. 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?

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