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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) Self-Help in Hard Times
(b) War is the Health of the State
(c) Surprises
(d) Or Does It Explode

2. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?
(a) June 13, 1946
(b) September 12, 1944
(c) August 6, 1945
(d) August 9, 1945

3. In what year did President Harry S. Truman issue Executive Order 9981?
(a) 1902
(b) 1848
(c) 1899
(d) 1865

4. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict beginning in what year?
(a) 1955
(b) 1962
(c) 1942
(d) 1965

5. The Preparedness Day Bombing took place on what date?
(a) March 10, 1929
(b) August 12, 1898
(c) September 15, 1900
(d) July 22, 1916

6. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?
(a) Reno, Nevada
(b) San Francisco, California
(c) Los Angeles, California
(d) Albuquerque, New Mexico

7. For what utopian novel is Edward Bellamy most famous?
(a) Looking Backward
(b) The Great American North
(c) The Sun Also Rises
(d) The Trail of Tears

8. The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union that was formed in what year?
(a) 1911
(b) 1899
(c) 1905
(d) 1849

9. Why does author Zinn make the argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary?
(a) The U.S. government had more capable weapons to ensure the surrender of Japan
(b) Japan had already surrendered
(c) Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not important cities to Japan
(d) The U.S. government knew the Japanese were considering surrender beforehand

10. When did World War I begin?
(a) September 15, 1900
(b) March 27, 1925
(c) July 28, 1914
(d) August 12, 1898

11. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?
(a) October 29, 1929
(b) December 12, 1930
(c) June 13, 1928
(d) September 12, 1929

12. When was the American Railway Union founded?
(a) 1905
(b) 1899
(c) 1893
(d) 1911

13. COINTELPRO is an acronym for what?
(a) Counter Intelligence Program
(b) Contemporary Intelligence Protocol
(c) Coin-operated Telephone Program
(d) Collateral Intelligence Protocol

14. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) 1972
(b) 1967
(c) 1969
(d) 1965

15. What platoon leader in the Vietnam War was convicted of killing 22 villagers at My Lai and was originally given a life sentence but only served three and a half years under house arrest?
(a) Nathan Bacon
(b) William Berkeley
(c) John Whitmore
(d) William Calley

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?

2. During what years did Gerald Ford serve as President of the United States?

3. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?

4. What term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?

5. Vietnam Veterans Against the War began as a placard slogan in the staging area for the Spring Mobilization to End the War anti-war demonstration in what year?

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