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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Joseph Stalin.
(d) Benito Mussolini.

4. According to Roosevelt's speech "Hemisphere Defense for Democracy", what came from the spirit that must be grounded in faith?
(a) Peace.
(b) Nature.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

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

6. 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) Hunger.
(b) Animal life.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Human life.

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

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

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

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

11. Who said that the United States now has her second opportunity to make the world safe for democracy?
(a) Henry Wallace.
(b) Norman Thomas.
(c) Dorothy Thompson.
(d) Harry Truman.

12. Who was a lawyer and railroad executive that was known for his after-dinner speeches?
(a) Andrew Carnegie.
(b) Joseph Hodges Choate.
(c) George Graham Vest.
(d) Chauncy Mitchell Depew.

13. In the speech Dunkirk by Winston Churchill, which country was the aggressor?
(a) Russia.
(b) The United States.
(c) Japan.
(d) Germany.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speech, "A Grave Situation", how many years did the British Fleet control the Atlantic Ocean?

2. Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and was one of the great American novelists in the 20th century?

3. Who was one of the most gifted poets in Britain known for his voice, poetry readings and his speeches?

4. Which U.S. region of people were by nature patient and forbearing?

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

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