Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The policy of cutting rules and regulations that government agencies place on
businesses is called
a. | glasnost. | c. | Reaganomics. | b. | perestroika. | d. | deregulation. |
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The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks included damage to the
a. | White House. | c. | Pentagon. | b. | Capitol. | d. | Lincoln
Memorial. |
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Who was the Polish leader of Solidarity?
a. | Lech Walesa | c. | H. Ross Perot | b. | Yassir Arafat | d. | Boris Yeltsin |
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Who was the leader of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War?
a. | Mikhail Gorbachev | c. | Boris Yeltsin | b. | Lech Walesa | d. | Saddam Hussein |
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What is the trade agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States?
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Osama bin Laden became a hero to militant fundamentalists in Afghanistan during
the fight against
a. | Britain. | c. | India. | b. | the Soviet Union. | d. | the Taliban. |
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Whose economic plan was perestroika?
a. | Mikhail Gorbachev | c. | Ronald Reagan | b. | George H.W. Bush | d. | Lech Walesa |
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Osama bin Laden is a
a. | Pashtun leader. | c. | Muslim fundamentalist. | b. | Tajik
prince. | d. | moderate
fundamentalist. |
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The issue of recounting Florida ballots in the presidential election of 2000 was
resolved by
a. | state courts. | c. | the Supreme Court. | b. | the Florida governor. | d. | election
commissioners. |
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| “. . . In the 1960s in the wake of urban riots and perceived increases in urban
crime, handgun sales increased dramatically from fewer than 750,000 in 1964 to more than 2 million in
1968, where they remain today. Most of the new sales, experts believe, were to fearful homeowners.
Today about half of all American households contain some kind of firearm, and half of them are
handguns. . . .” | |
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10.
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 What event occurred in 1981 that brought further
national attention to efforts to control the millions of handguns in American homes? a. | John Lennon was killed. | b. | President Reagan was shot with a handgun in an
assassination attempt. | c. | Martin Luther King, Jr., was
assassinated. | d. | Jean Harris murdered Dr. Herman Tarnower. |
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“Honey, I forgot to duck.”
–Ronald
Reagan | |
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 To what event is Reagan referring in this March
30, 1981 quote to this wife Nancy? a. | the election results of 1984 | b. | criticism of the Iran-Contra
Scandal | c. | the assassination attempt on his life | d. | a fall from his horse at their
ranch |
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REALIZATION OF VULNERABILITY
“Today the almost casual acceptance of technology
exploded in a fireball.
“And suddenly,
as a result, people are jolted into realizing once again the extreme vulnerabilities that all humans
must inevitably subject themselves to when they attempt exploration, or even when they are simply
willing to place their fates in the hands of technology.
“The recent space flights were
beginning to seem so matter-of-fact that the television networks ceased their live coverage of
launchings and landings. Newspaper accounts were often relegated to the inside pages. .
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–John Noble Wilford, New York Times,
January 28, 1986 | |
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 Called “the worst disaster in U.S. space
history,” the event this newspaper article refers to is a. | the near-collision of the Discovery shuttle. | b. | the crash of
Sputnik. | c. | the explosion on take-off the space shuttle Challenger. | d. | the failure of the
Apollo program. |
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“The smoke was so bad, I was suffocating. When the buildings toppled, it was like a
volcano.”
–September 11, 2001 | |
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 What event does this passage by a survivor
describe? a. | the crash of a plane in Pennsylvania | b. | the attack on the World Trade
Center | c. | the bombardment of Baghdad | d. | the attack on Kabul by the
Taliban |
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  Base your answer on the time
line above. How many years was Ronald Reagan president of the United States?
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 Based on the information above, which of the
following statements about the 2000 presidential election is true? a. | Al Gore won the popular vote. | b. | George Bush won the popular
vote. | c. | Al Gore won Florida’s electoral votes. | d. | Gore did better in
Texas than Bush. |
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 Which of the following states cast the most
electoral votes in the 2000 presidential election? a. | Texas | c. | New York | b. | California | d. | Illinois |
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 Based on the information above, in which countries
were U.S. embassies bombed in 1998? a. | Scotland & East Germany | c. | Kenya &
Tanzania | b. | Lebanon & Syria | d. | Saudi Arabia & Kenya |
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 Based on the map, on which one of the following
continents were there no terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2001? a. | North America | c. | Africa | b. | Europe | d. | South America |
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  Based on the map, how many
separate nations were formed by the breakup of Yugoslavia? a. | five | c. | seven | b. | six | d. | eight |
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Critics ridiculed President Reagan's economic policy, calling it
a. | Ergonomics. | c. | Reaganomics. | b. | Ron's economics. | d. | Ron's
Revolution. |
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Who was the leader of Poland's Solidarity who later became president of
Poland?
a. | Lech Walesa | c. | Boris Yeltsin | b. | Mikhail Gorbachev | d. | Saddam Hussein |
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Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait resulted in
a. | the breaking of diplomatic ties. | c. | the Persian Gulf
War. | b. | a coup. | d. | the
withdrawal of American troops. |
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During the 1996 elections, which Republican candidate did Bill Clinton
defeat?
a. | George H.W. Bush | c. | H. Ross Perot | b. | Ralph Nader | d. | Robert Dole |
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Where was the World Trade Center?
a. | New York City | c. | Washington, D.C. | b. | Seattle, Washington | d. | Somerset,
Pennsylvania |
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Who invaded Afghanistan in 1979?
a. | China | c. | the Soviet Union | b. | Great Britain | d. | the United
States |
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In the war on terror, the targets of United States strikes were
a. | the Northern Alliance troops. | c. | Afghani
civilians. | b. | Pakistan and India. | d. | al-Qaeda and the Taliban. |
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What caused an airplane to crash into the Pentagon?
a. | engine failure | c. | turbulence | b. | hijackers | d. | militarism |
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The idea that the world’s economies and societies are all part of one big
system is called
a. | symbiosis. | c. | interconnectedness. | b. | globalism. | d. | mercantilism. |
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The estimated number of illegal immigrants in the United States today is
a. | 12 million. | c. | 350,000. | b. | 24 million. | d. | 7 million. |
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The leading causes of death in the United States today are
a. | cancer and diabetes. | c. | diabetes and heart disease. | b. | heart disease and
stroke. | d. | cancer and heart
disease. |
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