The Four Freedoms Speech

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Four Freedoms Quiz

Vocabulary Review

Multiple Choice

If two nations agree on a program of disarmament, which of the following must happen?

• The nations will reduce the number of weapons they have.

• The nations will guarantee equal civil rights for all their citizens.

• The nations will eliminate taxes on the products they sell to each other.

Multiple Choice

What is pacification?

• an illegal threat to a foreign country.

• an attack on an ocean by the naval forces

• state of calm or peace put in place through diplomacy, or political negotiation

• a battle fought by two nations with interference by another nation.

Multiple Choice

What is tyranny?

• a democracy

• cruel rule over a nation or people

• a national program during war

• act of betrayal

Multiple Choice

What is treachery?

• getting rid of weapons

• act of betrayal

• working intensely

• hate and greed

Multiple Choice

What is appeasement?

• a form of torture

• a democratic plan of government

• limiting or getting rid of weapons.

• giving into demands in order to keep peace.

Multiple Choice

What is propaganda?

• information often of a false or misleading nature, used to promote a cause.

• news from spies to other countries

• a government plan of action in a war

• weapons obtained by the military

Multiple Choice

Why does Roosevelt see the present threat to American society as “unprecedented?"

• No nation has fought against the US in a war.

• The United States military does not engage in warlike activity.

• No nation has ever attempted to destroy the world’s democracies.

Persuasive appeal Review

Multiple Choice

This advertisement uses...

• Ethos - appeal to authority

• Pathos- appeal to emotion

• Logos- appeal to logic

Multiple Choice

If an ad claimed:  "35 people drank this diet soda, and 33 of them subsequently lost weight," the ad is using...

• Ethos- appeal to authority

• Pathos- appeal to emotion

• Logos- appeal to logic

Multiple Choice

"You know me - I've taught Sunday School at your church for years, babysat your children, and served as a playground director for many summers."

• Appeal to authority (Ethos)

• Appeal to emotion (Pathos)

• Appeal to logic (Logos)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following choices is NOT an example of emotional appeal (pathos)?

• “And the assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small.”

• “The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny.”

• “Today, thinking of our children and of their children, we oppose enforced isolation for ourselves or for any other part of the Americas.

• “No realistic American can expect from a dictator’s peace international generosity… or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion -- or even good business.”

Restatement and Repetition (Task 3)

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to end this sentence so that it has parallel structure?

I like sewing, cooking, and...

• to read a good book.

• reading a good book.

• a good book.

• reading a book that is good.

Multiple Choice

Identify: is the following example an example of restatement or repetition?

We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament.

• Restatement

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

Identify: is the following example an example of restatement or repetition?

The government will reduce income tax next year. In other words, we will take less of the money that you earn.

• Restatement

• Repetition

Root word Pac & Review Question
Task 4-5

Multiple Choice

What does the suffix -ist mean?

• Means one who believes in or one who supports

• Means one who has a career.

• Means to make.

Multiple Choice

What does the suffix -ify mean?

• means to go

• means to make

• means to have

Multiple Choice

Why is national unity critical for the present situation?

• National unity is the strongest possible defense against the enemy.

• The nation needs to build the military defense system.

• Propaganda has played a role in dividing the national unity.

Multiple Choice

What immediate course of action is Roosevelt saying that the U.S. should pursue?

• Women should take over in factories.

• Build the economy by getting new jobs.

• Building up its supply of military weapons.

Multiple Select

What are three of the “four essential human freedoms” as outlined by Roosevelt?

• Freedom from fear

• Freedom from military

• Freedom of speech

• Freedom from want

Multiple Choice

What were the Four Freedoms addressed in his speech?

• Fear, Speech, Want, Religion

• Fear Speech, Want, Life

• Life, Liberty, Happy

• Fear, Speech, Liberty

Multiple Choice

All of the following are examples of allusions EXCEPT:

• “And, fortunately, only one of these -- the four-year war between the States -- ever threatened our national unity.”

• “…opposition -- to any attempt to lock us in behind an ancient Chinese wall while the procession of civilization went past.”

• . “Those who would give up essential liberty … deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

• “We must always be wary of those who with sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal preach the ‘ism’ of appeasement.”

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best expresses the theme of "The Four Freedoms?"

• Dictators and tyrants are evil, and it is America's job to take them out!

• Freedom is a human right worth fighting for.

• Freedom costs a lot, but we as Americans should be willing to pay more taxes to ensure freedom for all nations.

• Is "theme" like "them" but with an "e" at the end?

Multiple Choice

What immediate course of action is Roosevelt saying that the U.S. should pursue?

• Women should take over in factories.

• Build the economy by getting new jobs.

• Building up its supply of military weapons.

Multiple Choice

What is FDR's definition of freedom?

• The supremacy of human rights everywhere

• The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

• Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government

• the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity