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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Help Wanted.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what is the first cause for the decline of America?
(a) Some of the most important matters that are suffering from neglect are education, deficits and dept and climate change.
(b) We have stopped investing in our future.
(c) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.
(d) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.

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

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

4. The Tea Party movement is a political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and ________.
(a) Athiest.
(b) Libertarian.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Republican.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth pillar to prosperity?

2. Where in China did Tom Friedman attend the World Economic Forum summer conference?

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

4. 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?

5. Who is the co-author of the book along with Thomas L. Friedman?

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