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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 Benito Mussolini in "A Call to Arms", what would Italy answer economic sanctions with?
(a) Increased production of products.
(b) War.
(c) High tariffs.
(d) Discipline.

2. According to the speech, "A Grave Situation", how many years did the British Fleet control the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) 200 years.
(b) More than 250 years.
(c) Over 100 years.
(d) 50 years.

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

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

5. According to Horace Porter, what was the woman's first home?
(a) Africa.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The Garden of Eden.
(d) South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eisenhower, the United States wanted to befriend which group of people?

2. Who was a British playwright and novelist that delivered the speech "Literature and the Press"?

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. Who said "I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe General Goethals.

2. Describe the impatience of the American people in the chapter "International Affairs and the United States".

3. What were John F. Kennedy's feelings on peace?

4. How did Dorothy Thompson view isolation?

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. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

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

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

10. What did democracy mean to James Bryant Conant?

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