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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) The Unreported Resistance
(b) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(c) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(d) The Intimately Oppressed

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

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) The Socialist Challenge
(b) War is the Health of the State
(c) Self-Help in Hard Times
(d) Robber Barons and Rebels

5. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by whom?
(a) Queen Victoria
(b) King George III
(c) King Edward IV
(d) King Charles I

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Herbert Hoover serve as President of the United States?

2. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?

3. When was the American Railway Union founded?

4. The Plowshares Movement was an anti-nuclear weapons and largely Christian pacifist movement that gained notoriety in what decade?

5. Where was Bill Clinton born?

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