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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: Whatever It Is, I'm Against It.

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) Electrorail.
(c) Metrorail.
(d) Cosmorail.

2. What political party is James Inhofe a member of?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Tea Party.
(c) Republican.
(d) Green.

3. 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 New Deal.
(b) Washington's Deal.
(c) The Marshall Plan.
(d) The Denali Plan.

4. When was Bill Clinton born?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1937.

5. Who succeeded John F. Kennedy after his assassination?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who do the authors assert is a political icon for the Republican Party?

3. What refers to a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on December 18, 2010?

4. When did Tom Friedman travel to China for the World Economic Forum summer conference?

5. What percent of Tea Party Republicans say there is no evidence of global warming, according to the authors in Chapter 10: "The War of Physics and Other Good Things"?

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