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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through United States and the Second World War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivered the speech "Our Government" one hundred and fifty years after the first Congress of the U.S. met?
(a) Anthony Eden.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Thomas Dewey.
(d) Charles Evans Hughes.

2. Who was the leader and Presidential candidate for the socialist party for many years?
(a) Henry Wallace.
(b) Dorothy Thompson.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Norman Thomas.

3. Who was a former Governor of New York that attacked religious prejudice in American politics?
(a) Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
(b) William Green.
(c) Clarence Darrow.
(d) Alfred E. Smith.

4. In the speech "Nationalism in India", how did the speaker feel that the countrymen will truly gain their India?
(a) By fighting against Christianity.
(b) By fighting against education.
(c) By fighting against the government.
(d) By fighting against Muslims.

5. Who was interested in politics, but placed social reforms before political independence?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore.
(b) Mohandas Ghandi.
(c) Sun Yat-sen.
(d) Jan C. Smuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made a plea to Lord Mayor in 1882 to come to the aid of the Russian Jews?

2. According to Fulton Sheen, who said "We are becoming a warlike nation--that is to say, one endowed to a higher degree with virtues of obedience, sacrifice, and dedication to country"?

3. According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what still offered her bounty, and human efforts multiplied it?

4. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?

5. According to John L. Lewis' "The Rights of Labor", what opposed communism?

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