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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through International Affairs and the United States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a philosopher, diplomat and statesmen that had great abilities in different fields of study?
(a) John Marshall.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

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

3. Who was the director of the laboratories in Los Alamos, NM, where the atomic bomb was perfected?
(a) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Walter Philip Reuther.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) William Faulkner.

4. According to a speech Edward Everett, which two men died in the same day?
(a) Adams and Jefferson.
(b) Washington and Jefferson.
(c) Adams and Washington.
(d) Adams and Hamilton.

5. In Einstein's speech "Peace in the Atomic Age", what appeared to be on the public horizon as a probable and attainable goal?
(a) World domination.
(b) The H-bomb.
(c) Color television.
(d) Nuclear power plants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who started the Hull House, a famous settlement for Social Service in Chicago?

3. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?

4. Which country did Italy receive modest material aid from during the war?

5. According to Haile Selassie, which country was the first to be threatened by Fascist Italy?

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