That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Thomas Friedman
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Thomas Friedman
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Homework x 2 = The American Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the DuPont Corporation originally founded to manufacture?
(a) Dynamite.
(b) Stagecoaches.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) Opium.

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

4. What is a proprietary voice over Internet Protocol service and software application originally created by David Somekh and owned by Microsoft since 2011?
(a) Myspace.
(b) Twitter.
(c) Skype.
(d) Facebook.

5. What word means to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area?
(a) Disembody.
(b) Decentralize.
(c) Demoralize.
(d) Disintegrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, there are six crucial elements to improving the country's educational system. What is the fourth?

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

3. How many school districts are there in America?

4. What is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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