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

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

3. Where was Tom Friedman at an education conference when a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans?
(a) Portland, OR.
(b) Boise, ID.
(c) San Jose, CA.
(d) Phoenix, AZ.

4. What refers to an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons?
(a) Obscurity.
(b) Philanthropy.
(c) Charity.
(d) Disanthropy.

5. Who insisted that his own gravestone be marked with the fact that he had founded the University of Virginia?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, by ending the Cold War, America opened the global door to how many more people who would be living like us and would be competing for our jobs?

2. Who saw to it that returning soldiers were given an advantage for serving the country with the institution of the GI Bill of Rights?

3. The Tea Party movement has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?

4. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?

5. How much time did it take to erect the conference building which housed the World Economic Forum summer conference?

(see the answer key)

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