Software Reviews : AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY Reviewed by Cecilia G. Manrique,Slippery Rock University Publisher: Focus Media,839 Stewart Ave.,Garden City,NJ 11530 (telephone : [phone] or 800-645-8989) Year of Publication: 1987 Materials: Four 5.25-inch disks,teacher's lesson planner (26 pages) with eight pages of test questions Price: $119 for lab pack of 12 diskettes;30% of lab pack price for each additional diskette;$357 for institutional purchase Machine Specificity: Apple II series System Requirements: One disk drive Effectiveness: Fair User-Friendliness: Good Documentation: Good

Abstract

This software asks a series of multiple choice questions in the form of drills on four time periods (the emergence of the nation, from isolation to imperialism, from World War I to the cold war, the nuclear age). Wrong answers call for second tries, but help is available the third time the answer is given. Answers may be linked to children's games (race car, ski slalom, lunar landing, shooting gallery).