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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What did Winston Churchill say is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries in his "An Iron Curtain has Descended" speech?
(a) Opportunity.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Peace.
(d) Liberty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Roosevelt's speech "Hemisphere Defense for Democracy", what came from the spirit that must be grounded in faith?

2. According to President Nixon, what title can one receive that was the greatest honor of history?

3. In Einstein's speech "Peace in the Atomic Age", what appeared to be on the public horizon as a probable and attainable goal?

4. What state's governor's lips were "dripping with words of interposition and nullification"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the true political test according to Stevenson.

2. According to Nixon, what did the oath of the President mean?

3. What were the main forces of the Red Army?

4. What is the tradition of Irish learning?

5. Discuss the difference between merchants and ministers.

6. According to Eisenhower, how did a country produce unity?

7. What were Baruch's feelings on the controlling of atomic weapons?

8. How was are international trade relations under Franklin Roosevelt?

9. Describe Henry Watterson's protege.

10. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

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