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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eisenhower, the United States wanted to befriend which group of people?
(a) The Italians.
(b) The Soviet people.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The French people.

2. According to the speech, "United States Far Eastern Policy", what did the speaker suggest that Democrats and Republicans avoid?
(a) Atomic war.
(b) Disunity as a country.
(c) Conflict with any eastern country.
(d) Constant bickering.

3. According Benito Mussolini in "A Call to Arms", what would Italy answer economic sanctions with?
(a) War.
(b) Increased production of products.
(c) Discipline.
(d) High tariffs.

4. Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and was one of the great American novelists in the 20th century?
(a) Dylan Thomas.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Walter Philip Reuther.
(d) William Faulkner.

5. What did John D. Rockefeller, Jr. believe the greatest thing in the world was?
(a) Money.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

6. Who was thought to be a great lawyer and believed that every man owes a duty to his profession?
(a) George Graham Vest.
(b) Rev. Dr. Bellows.
(c) Andrew D. White.
(d) Lord Bacon.

7. Who was a Democratic candidate for President in two consecutive elections, 1952 and 1956?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

8. According to the speech "Powers of the President", what was the President responsible for?
(a) Exploration of new territory.
(b) Administration of his office.
(c) Occupation of other countries.
(d) Declaration of war.

9. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?
(a) Oak trees.
(b) Peach trees.
(c) Magnolia trees.
(d) Walnut trees.

10. The arms race was between the United States and what country?
(a) France.
(b) U.S.S.R.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

11. Which U.S. region of people were by nature patient and forbearing?
(a) The people of the South.
(b) The people of the West.
(c) The people of the North.
(d) The people of New England.

12. Who was a businessman by training, a conservative politician that gave a speech defending the Munich Agreement?
(a) Anthony Eden.
(b) Clement R. Attlee.
(c) Neville Chamberlain.
(d) Winston Churchill.

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

14. What was torn from nature a secret so vast in its potentialities that our minds cower from the terror it creates?
(a) Science.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) War.

15. According to the speech, "American and the War", what is not America's noblest destiny?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Peace.
(c) Free country.
(d) Empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did President Johnson pledge to stop bombarding?

2. What organization required a nuclear backdrop far beyond the capability of any Western European nation to supply?

3. The year 1955 celebrated how many years since the United Nations was chartered?

4. In the speech, " A Glory has Departed", who was "a glory" referring to?

5. 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"?

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