"A New Day for Cuba?"
Which is true of the government in Cuba following the death of Fidel Castro?
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 New Day for Cuba?"
What kept Cuba's economy afloat from the 1960s until the early 1990s?
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 New Day for Cuba?"
Today, people 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 New Day for Cuba?"
According to the article, what needs to happen for the US to lift its economic
embargo on Cuba?
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
"Fake News Fooling Millions!"
What is the main idea of this article?
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
"Fake News Fooling Millions!"
What of the following statements is true about fake news?
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
"Fake News Fooling Millions!"
A main goal of "yellow journalism" was to
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
"Fake News Fooling Millions!"
Based on the article, the "echo chamber" phenomenon is probably at work when you
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
"Fake News Fooling Millions!"
Which of these is presented as the main problem with fake news?
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
"Fake News Fooling Millions!"
You can infer from the article that Facebook
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
"The Right to Love"
In the first half of the 20th century, Latinos in most states were considered
white as long as
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
"The Right to Love"
"Jim Crow" was a term used to describe
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
"The Right to Love"
To which Constitutional amendment did the Supreme Court refer in its ruling in
Loving vs. Virginia?
A) 1st
B) 4th
C) 13th
D) 14th
"How Trump Could Change America"
Trump has used which social media platform to reach American citizens?
A) Facebook
B) Twitter
C) Instagram
D) Snapchat
"How Trump Could Change America"
The article states that Trump is focused on putting "America first." Which of
the following ideas is NOT mentioned in this section of the article about
putting "America first?"
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
"Equal Pay for Equal Play?"
According to the article, Title IX
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
"Equal Pay for Equal Play?"
The article mentions that men and women are compensated more equally in which of
the following sports?