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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. Who developed an architectural style that constituted one of the chief movements in 20th century design?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) Oswaldo Aranha.

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

8. According to Eisenhower, the United States wanted to befriend which group of people?
(a) The Italians.
(b) The French people.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The Soviet people.

9. 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.

10. 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) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Benito Mussolini.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

11. In the speech, " A Glory has Departed", who was "a glory" referring to?
(a) Oswaldo Aranha.
(b) Mohandas Ghandi.
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(d) Dag Hammarskjold.

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

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

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

15. Who was a Democratic candidate for President in two consecutive elections, 1952 and 1956?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What country did President Johnson pledge to stop bombarding?

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

5. Who was very prominent in the Bolshevist revolution and reported on a Nazi air attack?

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