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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Ignoring Our History.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of the four major challenges that the authors mention in Chapter 2, what is the first challenge that America faces?
(a) How to adapt to globalization.
(b) How to adjust to the IT revolution.
(c) How to manage rising energy consugemption and increasing climate threats.
(d) How to cope with soaring budget deficits.

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

4. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1934.

5. The world-class high-speed train in China traveled how many miles per hour?
(a) 167.
(b) 88.
(c) 105.
(d) 72.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second major challenge that America faces?

2. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?

3. How many years before Friedman arrived was a three-hour car ride from Beijing the only way to get to the over-populated city where Tom Friedman attended the World Economic Forum summer conference?

4. What is the fourth pillar to prosperity?

5. What refers to an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons?

(see the answer key)

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