Quiz: Chapter 42

The September 11, 2001 attacks were carried out by terrorists tied to:

• a. Al-Qaeda
• b. The Taliban government of Iraq
• c. North Korea
• d. Iran

The USA PATRIOT Act, passed shortly after 9/11, primarily:

• a. Expanded government surveillance and law-enforcement powers
• b. Cut federal income taxes
• c. Created Medicare
• d. Ended the military draft

The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 chiefly because:

• a. The Taliban had sheltered al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
• b. Afghanistan had invaded Iraq
• c. Afghanistan possessed nuclear weapons
• d. Afghanistan attacked Pearl Harbor

The Bush administration's stated justification for invading Iraq in 2003 centered on claims of:

• a. Weapons of mass destruction
• b. Iraqi involvement in Pearl Harbor
• c. Iraqi seizure of the Suez Canal
• d. An Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 2002

Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 during a raid in:

• a. Iraq
• b. Pakistan
• c. Afghanistan
• d. Syria

The 2008 financial crisis was triggered largely by the collapse of:

• a. The subprime mortgage / housing bubble
• b. The gold standard
• c. NAFTA
• d. Oil price controls

TARP, passed in 2008, was designed to:

• a. Stabilize major banks with $700 billion in federal funds
• b. Fund the Iraq War
• c. Build the border wall
• d. End welfare payments

Barack Obama, elected in 2008, was historically significant as:

• a. The first African American president
• b. The first Catholic president
• c. The youngest president ever elected
• d. The first president from a western state

The Affordable Care Act (2010) primarily aimed to:

• a. Expand health insurance coverage to millions of Americans
• b. Create the Social Security system
• c. End Medicare
• d. Abolish private health insurance entirely

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) legalized:

• a. Same-sex marriage nationwide
• b. Marijuana nationwide
• c. Affirmative action in college admissions
• d. Interstate handgun sales

The COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States in:

• a. 2015
• b. 2018
• c. 2020
• d. 2022

In August 2021, following a U.S. withdrawal, control of Afghanistan was retaken by:

• a. The Taliban
• b. Al-Qaeda directly
• c. ISIS
• d. A United Nations peacekeeping force