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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Steve Jobs born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1942.

2. Approximately when did the Cold War begin?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1967.

3. When did Tom Friedman travel to China for the World Economic Forum summer conference?
(a) June, 2009.
(b) August 2011.
(c) July, 2008.
(d) September, 2010.

4. What refers to the process of thinking that questions assumptions?
(a) Critical thinking.
(b) Presumptive thinking.
(c) Mundane thinking.
(d) Assumptive thinking.

5. 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?
(a) The National Education Association.
(b) The Teacher's and Professor's Union.
(c) The Education Union.
(d) The American Learning Campaign.

6. Google was founded by Larry Page and what other individual?
(a) Sergey Brin.
(b) Bill Gates.
(c) Mark Zuckerberg.
(d) Al Gore.

7. What is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, known generically as polyamides, that were first produced on February 28, 1935, at the DuPont Experimental Station?
(a) Vespel.
(b) Nylon.
(c) Kevlar.
(d) Neoprene.

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

9. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship first became popular with kids in high crime areas in New York because in addition to teaching them math and reading, it focused on how they could do what?
(a) Make money.
(b) Become astronauts.
(c) Move away.
(d) Play sports.

10. 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 United States.
(b) NATO.
(c) The Eastern Bloc.
(d) The Middle East.

11. Who stabilized the country's economy by supporting legislation that saved capitalism and created social safety-nets like Social Security?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) George W. Bush.
(d) Bill Clinton.

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

13. What is the trademark of a range of durable, high-performance, polyimide-based plastics manufactured by DuPont?
(a) Vespel.
(b) Neoprene.
(c) Nylon.
(d) Kevlar.

14. What is the third cause, according to the authors, for America's decline?
(a) Leaders have stopped recognizing what America needs to thrive in today's world.
(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) Our political system is paralyzed and ineffective.

15. What does "IT" stand for?
(a) Isotope table.
(b) Imaginative truth.
(c) Isometric technology.
(d) Internet technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. A team from what country won the second prize in the the 2011 Association for Computing Collegiate Programming contest?

2. What is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters?

3. What is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area?

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

5. What is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene?

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