From: sackman@sendit.nodak.edu (Gleason Sackmann)
Subject: newsweek quiz - Nov 23, 1992
Organization: SENDIT BBS Fargo, North Dakota
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:47:33 GMT



     NEWSWEEK THISWEEK Weekly Quiz
     Written by Robert Florida
     Based on the November 23, 1992, issue of NEWSWEEK
 
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     NATIONAL AFFAIRS
     ____1. Which of the following was not mentioned as a
     priority during President-elect Clinton's first press
     conference last week?
     a. short-term job creation
     b. long-term economic growth
     c. mandatory national service
     d. a national health-care program
 
     ____2. Clinton's transition team is predominated by
     __________, many of whom will win positions in the new
     administration.
     a. old-school liberals
     c. Washington lobbyists
     b. Southern loyalists
     d. campaign loyalists
 
     ____3. During his first press conference as president-elect,
     Bill Clinton reiterated a campaign commitment to __________.
     a. raise taxes by 30%
     b. lift the ban that bars gays from the military
     c. accept lobbyist-lawyers in his transition team
     d. select a woman to be his chief of staff
 
     ____4. Finally, the press is beginning to give the sinkhole
     of Washington lobbyists the attention it deserves because
     __________.
     a. Ross Perot made it a campaign theme
     b. the lobbyists tend to be Democrats
     c. new disclosure forms make the story easier to get
     d. all of the above
 
     ____5. Elizabeth Tamposi claims she took orders from a State
     Department superior who asked her, at the behest of a top
     White House official, to __________.
     a. dig up dirt on Bill Clinton
     b. forge through Al Gore's passport file
     c. say that Bill Clinton went to Moscow illegally
     d. prove Hillary Clinton studied communism in college
 
     ____6. Which of the following does not account for the
     recent spate of carjackings?
     a. improvements in antitheft technology
     b. the lucrative market for hot cars
     c. the apathy of law-enforcement officials
     d. joy-riding kids who want money
 
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     INTERNATIONAL
     ____7. King Hussein of Jordan has begun to talk about the
     future of his country, which he foresees as becoming a
     staunch __________.
     a. theocracy
     b. democracy
     c. monarchy
     d. autocracy
 
     ____8. The United Nations blames __________ for its slow
     response to the situation in Somalia.
     a. the United States
     b. NGOs
     c. Mohamed Sahnoun
     d. its limited mandate
 
     ____9. The end of the sports boycott against South Africa
     has brought attention to the unsportsmanlike conduct of its
     rugby team, the __________.
     a. SARFU
     b. Die Stem
     c. Springboks
     d. Afrikaners
 
     ____10. Americans who have lost loved ones to the horror of
     Mexican jails may soon find redress by way of the _________.
     a. proposed North American Free Trade Agreement
     b. Supreme Court's decision to clamp down on drug trading
     c. State Department's insistence on due process
     d. Justice Department's insistence on extradition of drug
     dealers
 
     ____11. Chris Patten, the British governor of Hong Kong,
     took more fire when a leading business group in the colony
     opposed his plan to __________.
     a. increase the voting age and constrict democracy
     b. make the colony a British commonwealth in 1997
     c. return the colony to China in 1997
     d. drop the voting age and promote democratic reform
 
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     BUSINESS
     ____12. American ambassadors and consuls are finding that,
     as a result of a changing international order, a large part
     of their job consists of __________.
     a. covertly tracking foreign spies
     b. supporting America's economic interests
     c. guarding American business secrets from spies
     d. uncovering foreign trade secrets
 
     ____13. General Motors plans to remodel its plants largely
     in the image of its successful __________ division.
     a. Oldsmobile
     b. Buick
     c. Saturn
     d. mini-van
 
     ____14. People who do have employee health coverage still
     have to worry since the Supreme Court last week __________.
     a. refused to hear an appeal of a man whose employer
     abruptly cut his benefits
     b. limited coverage to $1,000
     c. ruled that companies are not responsible for covering
     chronic illness
     d. limited such coverage to AIDS patients
 
     ____15. Both Perot and Clinton opposed the British Airways-
     USAir merger, saying it would allow the British to buy into
     the largest air market without __________.
     a. any assurance that the British planes are safe
     b. giving U.S. carriers the same opportunity abroad
     c. any recompense for the U.S. government
     d. giving U.S. carriers the right to fly into Britain
 
     ____16. Food Lion Inc. has launched a public-relations
     crusade against a television program that accused the firm
     of _________.
     a. using dangerous chemicals in its packaging
     b. placing harsh productivity demands on its workers
     c. adding sawdust and pigsnouts to its products
     d. bleaching old meat and disguising tainted chicken
 
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     SOCIETY
     ____17. __________ is the name of the frozen dirt ball that
     one astronomer predicts might hit the Earth on August 14,
     2126.
     a. Slow-Tuttle
     b. Swift-Tuttle
     c. Oort-Cloud
     d. Halley's Comet
 
     ____18. A comet is simply defined as chunks of frozen
     __________.
     a. water and nitrogen
     b. water and hydrogen
     c. gases and dirt
     d. carbon dioxide
 
     ____19. Scientists now agree that comets erupt with
     __________ as the sun warms their surfaces, which might
     nudge them off their usual course and send them colliding
     into Earth.
     a. jets
     b. asteroids
     c. Orto clouds
     d. Tunguska rock

     ____20. Comets smaller than 30 feet across rarely reach
     Earth, for they usually __________.
     a. are pulled toward the Sun by the Sun's gravity
     b. fragment and burn up in the atmosphere
     c. snowball in size and then blow up in a flash
     d. plunge through the atmosphere without exploding
 
     ____21. Which of the following proposals would work best in
     deflecting a comet?
     a. drop antimatter on the comet
     b. drop a "solar sail" on the comet
     c. explode a nuclear device beside the comet
     d. drop a heat source on the comet
 
     ____22. Scientific estimates show that impacts from space
     have devastated __________ of all the species that ever
     crawled, walked, flew or swam on Earth.
     a. three quarters
     b. two thirds
     c. one half
     d. one quarter
 
     ____23. The greenhouse effect may hasten the next ice age
     because __________.
     a. warming the high northern regions could cause heavy
     snowfall to commence
     b. more ozone will be admitted into the atmosphere
     c. the increased concentration of gases will cool the earth
     d. many plant and animal species will die off
 
     ____24. Sexual equality was well-served in England last week
     when the church's governing houses narrowly voted to
     __________.
     a. accept women in the House of Lords
     b. accept women in the House of Parliament
     c. ordain women in the Catholic Church
     d. ordain women to the Anglican priesthood
 
     ____25. Employers and landlords who discriminate may face
     __________.
     a. a new antidiscrimination law
     b. the watchdog group EREH
     c. "testers"
     d. huge fines and license revocations
 
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     ESSAY
 
     Respond to one of the following, using information from the
     current issue of NEWSWEEK to support your essay.
 
     1. NEWSWEEK's David A. Kaplan argues that the
     politicalization of America's Justice Department has become,
     sadly, part of our ethical culture (page 64). Write an essay
     in which you try to account for the contradiction that the
     highest judicial office in America has, over the last three
     decades, become a seat of untruths and outright criminality.
     How did Robert Kennedy's Justice Department differ in both
     tenor and intent from those of John Mitchell and Edwin
     Meese? Who should Clinton select to head his Justice
     Department? Defend your answer. How might that selection
     work to ensure the department's return to the high ethical
     standards established by Robert Kennedy?
 
     2. The Riot Grrrls, a new feminist voice for the video-age
     generation, are attempting to reshape the world to meet
     their brand of girlhood: sexy, assertive and loud (pages 84-
     86). As a member of their generation, write an essay in
     which you describe your reaction to the Riot Grrrls. With
     which elements of their message do you agree? With which do
     you disagree? Why? Do you know anyone who shares the same
     ideals? Do you support them? Do you agree or disagree with
     author Naomi Wolfe's assessment that it is a natural
     response to our current era, "a time of gender war"? Why or
     why not?
 
     3. Meg Greenfield writes that she was shocked to hear George
     Bush, during the recent presidential campaign, say about
     Bill Clinton: "I like him" (page 92). She says we should not
     allow vicious, untrue assaults on political opponents to be
     rationalized away after the vote as empty political talk.
     Write an essay in which you discuss your own thoughts about
     the gap between political rhetoric and personal affection
     among politicians. Do you recoil when two political
     adversaries, who have exchanged damaging and untrue remarks
     about each other, admit to a mutual affection for each
     other? What does this say about them?
 
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