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

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

3. According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what still offered her bounty, and human efforts multiplied it?
(a) War.
(b) Nature.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the speech Dunkirk by Winston Churchill, which country was the aggressor?

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

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

5. J.F.K. in his Inaugural address said man had the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the true political test according to Stevenson.

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

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

5. How did Dorothy Thompson view isolation?

6. Discuss the difference between merchants and ministers.

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

8. What is the tradition of Irish learning?

9. Describe the new Reich according to Hitler.

10. Describe General Goethals.

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