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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) James Conant.
(b) Charles Lindbergh.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Cordell Hull.

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

3. In the speech, "The Search for International Cooperation", what country did Pierre Mandes-France suggest France had a concern?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Algeria.
(c) Libya.
(d) Tunisia.

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

5. What lake did Chief Justice Earl Warren's home overlook?
(a) Lake Erie.
(b) Lake Superior.
(c) Lake Michigan.
(d) Lake Ontario.

6. According to Owen D. Young, what did not "exist in a form of powder, a mere mass of incoherent particles"?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Culture.
(c) Society.
(d) Peace.

7. According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what still offered her bounty, and human efforts multiplied it?
(a) Peace.
(b) War.
(c) Nature.
(d) Love.

8. J.F.K. in his Inaugural address said man had the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of what?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Animal life.
(d) Human life.

9. Who delivered the speech comparing the words Nationalism and Internationalism?
(a) Dag Hammarskjold.
(b) Oswaldo Aranha.
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(d) Mohandas Ghandi.

10. What did Winston Churchill say is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries in his "An Iron Curtain has Descended" speech?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Peace.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Liberty.

11. According to the speech "Loyal Opposition", how many years was it since the Great War in Europe came to an end?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 22 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 5 years.

12. Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver the "I Have a Dream" speech?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Birmingham, AL.
(c) Memphis, TN.
(d) Atlanta, GA.

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

14. Who was a British playwright and novelist that delivered the speech "Literature and the Press"?
(a) Irvin S. Cobb
(b) Lord Bacon.
(c) Sir James Matthew Barrie.
(d) Lord Cecil.

15. Who worked hard to give New York a progressive, vital and constructive administration?
(a) John Vliet Lindsay.
(b) John William Gardner.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) George Wald.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Roosevelt's speech "Hemisphere Defense for Democracy", what came from the spirit that must be grounded in faith?

2. Who was imprisoned during World War 2 for a firm stance taken against India's participation in the war without a guarantee of independence?

3. Who was a lawyer and railroad executive that was known for his after-dinner speeches?

4. In the speech Dunkirk by Winston Churchill, which country was the aggressor?

5. Near what city was the facility that manufactured deadly nerve poison that created waste disposal issues?

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