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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?
(a) Little Boy
(b) Fat Man
(c) White Man
(d) Old Man

2. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) The Seventies: Under Control
(b) War is the Health of the State
(c) The Socialist Challenge
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

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

4. The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on what date?
(a) March 28, 1905
(b) December 15, 1791
(c) June 30, 1892
(d) March 27, 1825

5. Approximately how many people were killed as a result of the firestorm from the Bombing of Dresden?
(a) 10,300-11,250
(b) 22,700-25,000
(c) 25,000-30,000
(d) 32,400-40,000

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Richard Nixon resign as President of the United States?

2. What is the title of Chapter 15?

3. Christopher Columbus erected the Navidad fort at the site of what present-day country?

4. The People’s Party, or the “Populists” was a short-lived political party established in what year?

5. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?

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