1) President Obama’s goal was to get 7,000,000 uninsured people to sign up for health insurance by April 1, 2014. How many people actually signed up?
a) 600,000
b) 4.3 million
c) 5.2 million
d) 7.1 million
2) The Supreme Court issued a major ruling last week on what issue?
a) The constitutionality of certain campaign finance rules
b) The legality of warrantless searches conducted by the NSA
c) Baseball’s antitrust exemption
d) The freezing of the assets of suspected Libyan terrorists
3) There were protests all over America last weekend. The protesters were calling attention to what issue?
a) Gun violence
b) High tax rates
c) The deportation of illegal immigrants
d) The implementation of Obamacare
4) What happened to job growth in March?
a) 156,000 jobs were lost
b) 453,000 jobs were lost
c) 192,000 jobs were gained
d) 367,000 jobs were gained.
5) President Obama signed the Gabriella Miller Act into law last week. What does that law do?
a) It dedicated $125 million to spend on finding cures for childhood diseases.
b) It requires employers to pay men and women equally if they are performing the same work
c) It sets up a federal government scholarship program for Hispanic women
d) It requires colleges to take gender diversity into account when making admissions decisions.
6) What Middle Eastern government held presidential elections last week?
a) Iran
b) Afghanistan
c) Egypt
d) Saudi Arabia
7) An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit what country last week?
a) Indonesia
b) Chile
c) Canada
d) Japan
8) It was recently discovered that ZunZuneo, the “Cuban Twitter”, was started and funded by whom?
a) Mark Zuckerberg
b) Mark Cuban
c) Fidel Castro
d) The United States government
9) What world leader’s divorce became official last week?
a) President Vladimir Putin of Russia
b) Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom
c) President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico
d) President Michele Bachelet of Chile
10) What late night talk show host announced his retirement last week?
a) Jay Leno
b) David Letterman
c) Jimmy Kimmel
d) Conan O Brien