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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a sudden attack, as of epilepsy or some other disease?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Displacia.
(c) Seizure.
(d) Alzheimer's.

2. When was John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1948.

3. What is a property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force?
(a) Surface tension.
(b) Popular density.
(c) Cohesion.
(d) Atomic density.

4. Who wrote a letter to Johnny's family after his death saying, "for such there must be an immortality which we who tinker at the body may guess at but not understand"?
(a) Wilder Penfield.
(b) James Archer.
(c) Arthur Hill.
(d) Robby Benson.

5. What term refers to a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability?
(a) Saliency.
(b) Migrant.
(c) Prodigy.
(d) Elitist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Johnny when he died?

2. When was "Death Be Not Proud" first published?

3. In 1939, Johnny's letters reveal that he decided to make his own what in "A Few More of His Letters"?

4. What color hair did Johnny have as a child?

5. What was the common name given to an administrative history written by physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Allied World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb?

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