Current Events Quiz, January 11, 2011

This activity contains 10 questions.

On Sunday, voters went to the polls in southern ______ to decide on an independence referendum to determine if the region should break away and form its own country.

SenegalAngolaNigeriaSudan

According to a report issued by the Federal Reserve last week, the Fed's policy of ______ is working, and it anticipates the rate of inflation increasing by one percent and creating three million new jobs in 2012 as a result of the program.

reformed Keynesianismcentral bank barrowingquantitative easingfiscal conservatism

Less than a month after unveiling a new missile capable of striking U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, ______ unveiled its new stealth aircraft, the J-20, forcing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to express concern about the balance of power in the Pacific region.

JapanNorth KoreaIndiaChina

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Washington this week trying to win support for his proposal to

expand the role of the BRIC countries in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. reduce the role of the U.S. dollar as the de facto pricing for global oil transactions.reduce the role of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.restructure the United Nations Security Council.

______ became the newest member of the eurozone on Saturday, abandoning its national currency, the kroon, in favor of the EU-wide euro.

LatviaFinlandLithuaniaEstonia

A deal with the investment Giant Goldman Sachs valued this internet company at $50 billion.

GoogleMySpaceFacebookiTunes

Protests rocked ______, the capital of Algeria, last week as unemployed youth clashed with police in protests against rising food prices in the country.

AlgiersConstantineAnnabaOran

The government of Brazil last week warned that ______ was looming unless other key countries, including the U.S. and China, moved to prevent it.

a new wave of al-Qaeda backed terrorisma collapse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks a war with Argentinaa trade war

In an effort to further isolate the hardline regime in ______, the United States last week widened sanctions against the country, seizing several containers belonging to the national shipping company in a Singapore port.

ZimbabweNorth KoreaIranCote d'Ivoire

Who replaced Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House last week?

Eric CantorJohn BoehnerJames ClyburnKevin McCarthy

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