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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. What country was Warren Hastings the British governor?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Brazil.
(c) India.
(d) Honduras.

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

3. According to the speech "Speaking for the Consumer", what percentage is the middle class worker and consumer?
(a) 80%
(b) 70%
(c) 50%
(d) 60%

4. In what United States city did Sir Wilfrid Laurier defend Great Britain's cause, and support for the Great War?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

5. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?
(a) William Pitt.
(b) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(c) Warren Hastings.
(d) Oliver Cromwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Republican candidate for President in 1944 and said "we have a rendezvous with destiny"?

2. Who believed that if everyone understood the facts, no one would question England's involvement in the war?

3. According to Cardinal Mercer, who was the most authoritative teacher of Christian Theology?

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

5. Who wrote that the House of Commons needed to only pay attention to "British interests"?

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