Upfront Quiz - 1/27/17

A) Communist rule is over, and the nation is planning for democratic elections

B) Fulgencio Batista has taken over as dictator

C) Several top Communist officials are jockeying for power

D) The country continues to be ruled by Fidel's brother

A) aid from the United States government

B) aid from the Soviet Union

C) aid from Venezuela

D) Americans running large businesses in Cuba

A) get free education and health care

B) often struggle to live on small government salaries

C) are allowed to own their own businesses

D) all of the above statements are correct

A) an act of Congress

B) a Constitutional amendment

C) a presidential executive order

D) an agreement by the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

A) For decades, fake news stories have been a popular and mostly harmless form of entertainment

B) Fake news sites often feature professional designs

C) Fake news stories often contain partial truths

D) Fake news sites are flourishing on the internet and raising concerns

A) You can recognize it as fake because it doesn't include photographs

B) It often goes viral on social media sites

C) People first began falsifying news in the 21st century

D) all of the above statements are correct

A) adhere to professional reporting standards

B) get around government censors

C) present "feel-good" news to make Americans more optimistic

D) sell more newspapers

A) share an article you enjoy with someone who has similar political views to yours

B) verify that a news story you just read is actually true

C) read a news article twice to make sure you understand it

D) get your news only from online sources

A) It can be very hard to tell fake news from real news

B) It costs Americans billions of dollars a year

C) It causes Americans to waste time

D) It is created by governments of enemy nations

A) wants fake news providers to be prosecuted

B) is not permitted under the First Amendment to censor fake news

C) is unlikely to ban fake news

D) is responsible for creating many fake news reports

A) they had names that did not sound Latino

B) they had no African ancestry

C) they were female

D) at least one parent had been born in the United States

A) laws in the South that discriminated against blacks

B) any black man who married a white woman

C) the Supreme Court's famous 1954 ruling on school segregation

D) the anonymous plaintiffs in several civil rights court cases of the 1950s and 1960s

A) 1st

B) 4th

C) 13th

D) 14th

A) Facebook

B) Twitter

C) Instagram

D) Snapchat

A) fixing the longstanding drinking water problem in Flint, Michigan

B) renegotiating the 2015 deal with Iran to prevent it from building nuclear weapons

C) brokering a peace between Israel and the Palestinians

D) defeating ISIS

A) prohibits gender discrimination in schools receiving federal aid

B) prohibits gender discrimination in the workplace

C) prohibits companies to hire employees based on sexual orientation

D) prohibits companies to hire employees based on religious views

A) golf

B) tennis

C) basketball

D) soccer