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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what date was Roy Benavidez awarded the Medal of Honor?
(a) December 15, 1991
(b) February 24, 1981
(c) August 12, 1998
(d) August 9, 1945

3. In Chapter 9, the author asserts that in 1790, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S. How many slaves were there in 1860?
(a) 1 million
(b) 4 million
(c) 3 million
(d) 2 million

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

5. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?
(a) 1862
(b) 1846
(c) 1859
(d) 1923

Short Answer Questions

1. Bacon's Rebellion started due to a conflict over how the settlers should deal with what issue?

2. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

3. When was the Fairness Doctrine introduced by the FCC?

4. Abbie Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded what countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the anti-war movements of the 1960s?

5. When was Bill Clinton born?

(see the answer key)

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