Correct. The answer is b. The protests at the 1999 meeting of the WTO in Seattle indicated that new political issues were becoming centrally important in the United States and in the world, and that political protest movements were organizing in new and different ways. Economic globalization was the source of the new issues that were emerging, and the Internet was a new tool that political activists were using to disseminate their messages and mobilize their protests.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The protests at the 1999 meeting of the WTO in Seattle indicated that new political issues were becoming centrally important in the United States and in the world, and that political protest movements were organizing in new and different ways. Economic globalization was the source of the new issues that were emerging, and the Internet was a new tool that political activists were using to disseminate their messages and mobilize their protests.

Correct. The answer is d. California Proposition 187 reflected California lawmakers’ and voters’ concerns about the state’s economic stability. The law sought to limit illegal immigration in order to minimize competition for jobs and to limit the number of people who were taxing the state’s public resources.

Incorrect. The answer is d. California Proposition 187 reflected California lawmakers’ and voters’ concerns about the state’s economic stability. The law sought to limit illegal immigration in order to minimize competition for jobs and to limit the number of people who were taxing the state’s public resources.

Correct. The answer is b. Horsey’s cartoon intended to illustrate that Americans’ notions about morality were in flux. He portrays the extent to which ideas about marriage, family, and sexuality were liberalizing and how the shift in these ideas influenced Americans’ views about their political leaders.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Horsey’s cartoon intended to illustrate that Americans’ notions about morality were in flux. He portrays the extent to which ideas about marriage, family, and sexuality were liberalizing and how the shift in these ideas influenced Americans’ views about their political leaders.

Correct. The answer is c. Although Albright outlined her ideas about which regions of the world might pose the most serious threats to American interests, she did not specify one particular threat that she found most pressing, nor did she advocate one foreign policy approach over another. Rather, her speech made the case for a flexible and context-specific approach to foreign policy in which the United States had a responsibility “to be pathfinders; not to be imprisoned by history but to shape it; to build a world not without conflict but in which conflict is effectively contained; a world, not without repression but in which the sway of freedom is enlarged; a world not without lawless behavior but in which the law-abiding are progressively more secure.”

Incorrect. The answer is c. Although Albright outlined her ideas about which regions of the world might pose the most serious threats to American interests, she did not specify one particular threat that she found most pressing, nor did she advocate one foreign policy approach over another. Rather, her speech made the case for a flexible and context-specific approach to foreign policy in which the United States had a responsibility “to be pathfinders; not to be imprisoned by history but to shape it; to build a world not without conflict but in which conflict is effectively contained; a world, not without repression but in which the sway of freedom is enlarged; a world not without lawless behavior but in which the law-abiding are progressively more secure.”

Correct. The answer is a. According to Bush’s 2001 speech, Al Qaeda’s motivations were religious. Bush argued that the group’s goal was to wage a holy war on the West and impose its radical beliefs on the rest of the world.

Incorrect. The answer is a. According to Bush’s 2001 speech, Al Qaeda’s motivations were religious. Bush argued that the group’s goal was to wage a holy war on the West and impose its radical beliefs on the rest of the world.

Correct. The answer is d. Obama defused the controversy over his association with Wright by putting the man and his views into a larger historical context. He explained how Wright had come of age in the racist 1950s and 1960s “when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted,” and emphasized that “For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.”

Incorrect. The answer is d. Obama defused the controversy over his association with Wright by putting the man and his views into a larger historical context. He explained how Wright had come of age in the racist 1950s and 1960s “when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted,” and emphasized that “For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.”