QUIZ 1.

• Position: Elections, cheating, etc.

Use with NATIONAL, pages 8-14

FILL IN THE BLANK: Write the answer that best completes the statement.

1. Experts say a major reason why there were no bloody riots during the election dispute in the United States is that the rule of -- has become established in the American culture.

2. Thousands of people, including many teenagers, protested in the streets of Yugoslavia against dictator Slobodan Milosevic's plan to stage a -- election between himself and challenger Vojislav Kostunica.

3. Stephen Hess, a government expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., says voting in the U.S. is "fairly inefficient and fairly amateurish--but it's not --."

4. Americans voters were content to wait out the election dispute in large part because they believe in the independent --, one of the three branches of government.

5. Americans also have faith in the --, the document that serves as the foundation for our government.

6. About what percent of American high school students admit to having cheated on exams over the past year? --

7. Has the percentage of students who cheat risen, fallen, or stayed about the same over the last decade? --

8. Students are free to quote other people in term papers. But they must -- to avoid appearing to claim the quoted ideas as their own.

9. Identify the popular music-sharing service that, until recently, facilitated free public access to musicians' work. --

10. Rap artists often use portions of others' work in creating their songs. What is this process called? --

11. Identify the kind of law that protects the work of writers, artists, and musicians from theft. --

12. It's the Web site teachers can use to detect stolen material in written assignments. --

    CRITICAL THINKING: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

13. Michael Josephson says studies show that school cheating begins a pattern of dishonesty that can stay with a person throughout his or her life. Why do you think this is so?

14. The Greek philosopher Plato (428-348 B.C.) said of education, "If you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy: that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly." How might Plato discuss the effect that cheaters might be...