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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Up in the Air.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what train in his Maryland hometown had been under construction for almost a year for modernization?
(a) Urbanrail.
(b) Cosmorail.
(c) Electrorail.
(d) Metrorail.

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

3. What refers to the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact?
(a) The Eastern Bloc.
(b) The United States.
(c) NATO.
(d) The Middle East.

4. The Cold War came to an end in what year?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1985.
(d) 2001.

5. 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?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who insisted that his own gravestone be marked with the fact that he had founded the University of Virginia?

4. What refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people, and economic activity?

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

(see the answer key)

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