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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 an English novelist that spoke about "English Friendship for America"?
(a) James Russell Lowell.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Julia Ward Howe.

2. According to Owen D. Young, what did not "exist in a form of powder, a mere mass of incoherent particles"?
(a) Culture.
(b) Society.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Peace.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What battleship did the Japanese formally surrender to the United States on?

2. Who was a businessman by training, a conservative politician that gave a speech defending the Munich Agreement?

3. In the speech, "The Search for International Cooperation", what country did Pierre Mandes-France suggest France had a concern?

4. According Benito Mussolini in "A Call to Arms", what would Italy answer economic sanctions with?

5. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the true political test according to Stevenson.

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

3. Describe one's private library according to Phelps.

4. How did Truman suggest strengthening freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression?

5. What is the tradition of Irish learning?

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

7. Discuss the artificial restrictions placed on the Soviet Government.

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. What was the relationship of prosperity and peace according to Hull?

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