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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the United States' representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and was a valuable presidential adviser?
(a) Bernard M. Baruch.
(b) Norman Thomas.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

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

4. 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) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(c) Dag Hammarskjold.
(d) Mohandas Ghandi.

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

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

7. 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) War.
(d) Mathematics.

8. Where did the heads of the "Big Four" meet to discuss world problems "at the summit"?
(a) Rome, Italy.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Geneva, Switzerland.
(d) Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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

10. According to Anthony Eden's speech "A Firm Policy", what should the objective of foreign policy be?
(a) World domination.
(b) Economic growth.
(c) Prevention of hunger.
(d) Maintenance of peace.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?

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

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

5. Which former President was compared to Franklin Roosevelt, who was a courageous, virile champion of just and righteous peace, and a foe of those who put peace before righteousness?

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