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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What country did President Johnson pledge to stop bombarding?
(a) Korea.
(b) Laos.
(c) Cambodia.
(d) Vietnam.

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

4. 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.

5. According to Haile Selassie, which country was the first to be threatened by Fascist Italy?
(a) Ethiopia.
(b) Algeria.
(c) France.
(d) Somalia.

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

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

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

9. Eisenhower stated that a common bind existed between a rice grower in Burma and a wheat planter of what U.S. state?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Iowa.

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

11. Near what city was the facility that manufactured deadly nerve poison that created waste disposal issues?
(a) Skull Valley, Utah.
(b) Denver, Colorado.
(c) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(d) Khe Sanh, Vietnam.

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

13. Who said "I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect"?
(a) Sir Arthur Sullivan.
(b) Carl Schurz.
(c) William Schwenck Gilbert.
(d) Edward Everett Hale.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. 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?

3. Who was arrested on the basis of slanderous materials and eventually was killed?

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?

5. Who developed an architectural style that constituted one of the chief movements in 20th century design?

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