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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was founded on the exploitation of the weaknesses of the human heart?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Magna Carta.
(c) Nazi propaganda.
(d) The U.S. Constitution.

3. According to President Nixon, what title can one receive that was the greatest honor of history?
(a) Peacemaker.
(b) War monger.
(c) Humanitarian.
(d) President of the United States.

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

5. Who was one of the most gifted poets in Britain known for his voice, poetry readings and his speeches?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) Walter Philip Reuther.

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

7. Who was the leader and Presidential candidate for the socialist party for many years?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Dorothy Thompson.
(c) Henry Wallace.
(d) Norman Thomas.

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

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

10. Who was the American poet that was Ambassador to the Court from 1880-1885?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) James Russell Lowell.
(c) Robert Browning.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

11. Which country did Italy receive modest material aid from during the war?
(a) Germany.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) England.
(d) Turkey.

12. What state's governor's lips were "dripping with words of interposition and nullification"?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Alabama.

13. Who was imprisoned during World War 2 for a firm stance taken against India's participation in the war without a guarantee of independence?
(a) Oswaldo Aranha.
(b) Mohandas Ghandi.
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(d) Dag Hammarskjold.

14. According to the speech "An Independent Policy", what was always replaced by propaganda in time of war?
(a) Brotherhood.
(b) Unity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who believed that the Canadian people entered WWII on their own free will?

3. Who was the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean?

4. Eisenhower stated that a common bind existed between a rice grower in Burma and a wheat planter of what U.S. state?

5. According to Anthony Eden's speech "A Firm Policy", what should the objective of foreign policy be?

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