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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Horace Porter, what was the woman's first home?
(a) Africa.
(b) The Garden of Eden.
(c) South America.
(d) The kitchen.

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

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

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

6. What organization required a nuclear backdrop far beyond the capability of any Western European nation to supply?
(a) NATO.
(b) United Nations.
(c) Peace Corps.
(d) NAACP.

7. Who was very prominent in the Bolshevist revolution and reported on a Nazi air attack?
(a) Vyacheslav M. Molotov.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Nikita Krushchev.
(d) Nickolai Bulganin.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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) 5 years.
(c) 22 years.
(d) 10 years.

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

15. According to Eisenhower, what was a continuing imperative with mutual honor and confidence?
(a) Disarmament.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Hatred.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the United States' representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and was a valuable presidential adviser?

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

3. According to the speech, "United States Far Eastern Policy", what did the speaker suggest that Democrats and Republicans avoid?

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

5. Where did the heads of the "Big Four" meet to discuss world problems "at the summit"?

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