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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. According to Anthony Eden's speech "A Firm Policy", what should the objective of foreign policy be?
(a) Economic growth.
(b) Maintenance of peace.
(c) Prevention of hunger.
(d) World domination.

2. What was torn from nature a secret so vast in its potentialities that our minds cower from the terror it creates?
(a) Weapons.
(b) War.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Science.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speech "Loyal Opposition", how many years was it since the Great War in Europe came to an end?

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

3. Who was the director of the laboratories in Los Alamos, NM, where the atomic bomb was perfected?

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

5. According to Owen D. Young, what did not "exist in a form of powder, a mere mass of incoherent particles"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three elements represented the five members that completed the most important part of a war cabinet?

2. Discuss the difference between merchants and ministers.

3. What was the principal mission of the United Nations?

4. Describe Charles de Gaulle's reflections on the last four years in the "Independence for Algeria" speech.

5. How did Dorothy Thompson view isolation?

6. Describe General Goethals.

7. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

8. What was Einstein's feelings on peace?

9. Describe the phrase used by John F. Kennedy to call the people of the U.S. and the world to action.

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

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