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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Survey of Speeches by Black Americans and Important Speeches of 1974-1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the editor for the Emporia Gazette and won the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) Clarence Darrow.
(b) William Allen White.
(c) John L. Lewis.
(d) Thomas E. Dewey.

2. Who was the director of the laboratories in Los Alamos, NM, where the atomic bomb was perfected?
(a) Walter Philip Reuther.
(b) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) William Faulkner.

3. According to John Bright, what law was very unsettled or bad?
(a) Trade law.
(b) State law.
(c) Maritime law.
(d) Trent's law.

4. Who was the Republican candidate for President in 1944 and said "we have a rendezvous with destiny"?
(a) Charles Evan Hughes.
(b) John L. Lewis.
(c) Thomas E. Dewey.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

5. Who was a businessman by training, a conservative politician that gave a speech defending the Munich Agreement?
(a) Clement R. Attlee.
(b) Anthony Eden.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Neville Chamberlain.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eisenhower, what was a continuing imperative with mutual honor and confidence?

2. Who did Grover Cleveland refer to as a discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle?

3. Which former President was compared to Franklin Roosevelt, who was a courageous, virile champion of just and righteous peace, and a foe of those who put peace before righteousness?

4. What program did Truman state we "keep our full weight behind"?

5. In the speech "Address at Angostura", what empire was America compared to after their separation from Spain?

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