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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Informal Speeches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which territory did Sir Wilfrid Laurier discuss on the floor of the House of Commons?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Washington.
(d) Vancouver.

2. What program did Truman state we "keep our full weight behind"?
(a) South-east Asia Recovery Program.
(b) Russia Recovery Program.
(c) European Recovery Program.
(d) Japan Recovery Program.

3. Who was the director of the laboratories in Los Alamos, NM, where the atomic bomb was perfected?
(a) Walter Philip Reuther.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) J. Robert Oppenheimer.

4. According the the sermon "On Suffering Persecution", who holds forth to us the immortal crown?
(a) God.
(b) The Prince.
(c) The King.
(d) The Queen.

5. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what still offered her bounty, and human efforts multiplied it?

2. Who was an English novelist that spoke about "English Friendship for America"?

3. Who was a British playwright and novelist that delivered the speech "Literature and the Press"?

4. What lake did Chief Justice Earl Warren's home overlook?

5. According to Edmund Burke, what inhered in some sensible object and became the criterion of the colonists happiness?

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