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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through International Affairs and the United States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speech, "I Need Your Confidence", what was France's supreme resource?
(a) Industry.
(b) Labor.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Water.

2. Who believed that the Canadian people entered WWII on their own free will?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) W.L. Mackenzie King.
(c) Clement R. Attlee.
(d) Anthony Eden.

3. The year 1955 celebrated how many years since the United Nations was chartered?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

4. Who led the famous Pullman strike and identified with the Socialist movement?
(a) Stephen Wise.
(b) Elihu Root.
(c) Eugene Victor Debs.
(d) William Edgar Borah.

5. Who was the Senator of Massachusetts that was probably the most militant advocate of the abolition of slavery in Congress?
(a) William Seward.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Charles Sumner.
(d) John Calhoun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which state was organized by people within a region and abandoned slavery?

2. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?

3. The arms race was between the United States and what country?

4. Who was a philosopher, diplomat and statesmen that had great abilities in different fields of study?

5. Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and was one of the great American novelists in the 20th century?

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