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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through United States and the Second World War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Edmund Burke, what inhered in some sensible object and became the criterion of the colonists happiness?
(a) Love.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Peace.
(d) Freedom.

2. Who was the editor for the Emporia Gazette and won the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) Thomas E. Dewey.
(b) Clarence Darrow.
(c) John L. Lewis.
(d) William Allen White.

3. According to the speech "American Labor", what was the best market for American agriculture?
(a) The poorer nations of Africa.
(b) The people of Europe.
(c) American labor.
(d) The American Farmer.

4. In what United States city did Sir Wilfrid Laurier defend Great Britain's cause, and support for the Great War?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Chicago.

5. In a speech delivered on February 3, 1800, who refused to negotiate with Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) Warren Hastings.
(b) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(c) William Pitt.
(d) Oliver Cromwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that we have many things to learn from the West?

2. According to the speech, "American and the War", what is not America's noblest destiny?

3. According to Fulton Sheen, who said "We are becoming a warlike nation--that is to say, one endowed to a higher degree with virtues of obedience, sacrifice, and dedication to country"?

4. According the the sermon "On Suffering Persecution", who holds forth to us the immortal crown?

5. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?

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