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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. What does NATO stand for?
(a) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(b) North American Trade Organization.
(c) North African Trade Organization.
(d) North Argentinian Treaty Organization.

3. The Tea Party movement has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since what year?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2007.
(c) 1997.
(d) 2002.

4. What was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism?
(a) The Marshall Plan.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The Denali Plan.
(d) Washington's Deal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fifth pillar to prosperity?

2. According to the authors, what is the first cause for the decline of America?

3. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?

4. According to the authors in Chapter 3: "Ignoring Our History," there are five pillars to prosperity that if ignored will be at America's peril. What is the first pillar?

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

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