Upfront Magazine Quiz - 12/2/15

A) America's colonial era

B) World War I

C) the Cold War

D) none of the above

A) increase investment opportunities for U.S. businesses

B) bring about a thaw in U.S. - Cuba relations

C) convince Cuba to release American political prisoners

D) force the Castro regime from power

A) The U.S. permits Americans to travel to Cuba, but Cuba doesn't grant most of them entry.

B) Cuba allows Americans to visit for any reason, but the U.S. still bans travel into that country.

C) U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba have been eased considerably.

D) The U.S. has stated that it will not lift travel restrictions until Cuba improves its human rights records.

A) when the U.S. will lift the embargo

B) whether the U.S. will provide Internet service to Cuba

C) the status of Guantanamo Bay

D) how Cuba deals with human rights issues

A) authoritarian

B) democratic

C) temporary

A) "Recently, Cuba's government has given in to demands for more Internet access..."

B) "The government runs all newspaper, TV, and radio outlets, and tightly controls what Cubans can see online."

C) "Out of necessity, Raul Castro has taken small steps to reform Cuba's economy..."

D) "The Castro government also wants the U.S. to pay millions of dollars..."

A) a record-high national unemployment rate.

B) the growth of large cities.

C) the widespread use of crack cocaine.

D) none of the above

A) Offenders with three drug convictions are forced into rehabilitation programs.

B) Most offenders with three convictions automatically receive long sentences.

C) Offenders are sentenced to three years in prison for each nonviolent drug conviction they receive.

D) Convicts whose offenses involve drugs, weapons, and the threat of force receive mandatory life sentences.

A) The violent crime rate is at an all-time high.

B) New forensic evidence is calling into question many drug convictions from the past three decades.

C) Crack cocaine is making a resurgence in the U.S.

D) It costs the federal government billions of dollars a year to run federal prisons.

A) ending mandatory sentences for drug offenses

B) providing job skills to drug offenders in prison

C) releasing drug offenders who've served long terms

D) all of the above

A) Europe

B) Asia

C) South America

D) North America

A) Charles Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities"

B) Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

C) Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

D) Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon"

A) A strain formerly found only on Sumbawa spread globally via volcanic dust.

B) Altered weather and ecological systems allowed a new strain to emerge in India.

C) Cholera is caused by a vitamin deficiency, and most people did not have enough to eat after the eruption.

D) none of the above

A) the rise of the opium trade in China

B) increased emigration from Europe to the U.S.

C) crop failures in many parts of the world

D) a three-year period of intense global warming

A) simile

B) personification

C) irony

D) metaphor

A) MRSC

B) RDSW

C) DSWA

D) MRSA