How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?
How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?
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The Learning Network|Weekly News Quiz for Students: Coronavirus, Afghanistan, New York State Ban
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The Learning Network|Weekly News Quiz for Students
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Coronavirus, Afghanistan, New York State Ban
Compiled byJEREMY ENGLEandJOHN OTISMARCH 3, 2020

Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed over the past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer.
Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
Three more residents of a nursing care facility inhave died from coronavirus, officials announced on March 2, bringing to six the death toll in the United States and intensifying the crisis in this state.
California
Illinois
Texas
Washington
Last week,had its worst week in more than a decade as investors worldwide grew increasingly fearful that the coronavirus outbreak could cause a recession.
Hollywood
the hand sanitizer industry
the pharmaceutical industry
the stock market
The United States signed a deal withon Feb. 28 that sets the stage to end America’s longest war — the nearly two-decade-old conflict in Afghanistan that began after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Al Qaeda
ISIS
the Northern Alliance
the Taliban
scored a decisive victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, reviving his listing campaign and establishing himself as the leading contender to slow Senator Bernie Sanders.
Amy Klobachar
Elizabeth Warren
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Michael R. Bloomberg
On Feb 26, Congress passed a law makinga federal crime, following 120 years of repeatedly failing to pass such a bill.
drug trafficking
gender discrimination
lynching
mail tampering
At least 40 people died last week, most of them Muslim, in some of the worst religious violence inin years.
Chile
Ethiopia
India
Spain
New York banned thestatewide on March 1.
distribution of single-use plastic bags
sale of disposable umbrellas
sale of novelty car horns
use of kick scooters on public sidewalks
A National Guard soldier is set to become the Army’s first femalein coming weeks, according to military officials, following the Pentagon’s opening of all combat and Special Operations jobs to women in 2016.
Delta Force
Green Beret
Ranger
SEAL
The mathematician Katherine Johnson died at 101. Her life was celebrated in the 2016 Hollywood film “.”
A Beautiful Mind
Hidden Figures
Interstellar
The Theory of Everything
Three of the politics-themed articles below are from the satirical site The Onion. Only one was recently published in The New York Times. Which is the REAL news story?
“Buttigieg and Klobuchar Endorse Biden, Aiming to Slow Sanders”
“Candidates Struggle to Answer Question About Future of Granite Countertops During HGTV Town Hall”
“Increasingly Unhinged Centrists Announce Plan to Round Up Nation Into Camps to Force Them to Engage in Meaningful Dialogue”
“Last-Second DNC Rule Change Requires Candidates Spend at Least $300 Million of Own Fortune to Make Debate Stage”
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