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Citizenship Quiz #91-100

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to the BrainPOP, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are two cities in the country of ______.

a)

Japan

b)

South Korea

c)

Philippines

d)

Hawaii

2.

According to the NewsELA article, the bombing of Pearl Harbor was NOT a factor in President Truman's decision to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

#91: Name one U.S. territory?

a)

Cuba

b)

Dominican Republic

c)

Hawaii

d)

Puerto Rico

4.

#92: Which state borders Canada?

a)

Texas

b)

North Carolina

c)

California

d)

New York

5.

#93: Which state borders Mexico?

a)

Texas

b)

Mississippi

c)

Louisiana

d)

Oklahoma

6.

#94: What is the capital of the United States?

a)

New York City

b)

Harrisburg

c)

Philadelphia

d)

Washington, D.C.

7.

#95: Where is the Statue of Liberty?

a)

Manhattan

b)

New Jersey

c)

Liberty Island / New York Harbor

d)

Washington D.C.

8.

#96: Why does the flag have 13 stripes?

a)

Because the stripes represent the number of signatures on the U.S. Constitution

b)

Because the stripes represent the original colonies

c)

Because the stripes represent the number of signatures on the Declaration of Independence

d)

Because the stripes represent the major U.S. rivers

9.

#97: Why does the flag have 50 stars?

a)

Because the stars represent the number of signatures on the U.S. Constitution

b)

Because there is one star for each state

c)

Because the stars represent the number of signatures on the Declaration of Independence

d)

Because the stars represent the number of U.S. Presidents

10.

#98: What is the name of the national anthem?

a)

O Say Can You See

b)

God Bless America

c)

The Star-Spangled Banner

d)

My Country Tis of Thee

11.

#99: When does the country celebrate the "birth" of the nation (Independence Day)?

a)

January 1

b)

April 15

c)

July 4

d)

December 31

12.

#100: Name TWO national U.S. holidays?

a)

April Fool's Day and Labor Day

b)

Valentine's Day and President's Day

c)

Labor Day and Thanksgiving

d)

Tax Day and Columbus Day

13.

According to the NewsELA article, German scientists had also been trying to build atomic bombs, but failed.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

According to the NewsELA article, American scientists shared scientific knowledge with scientists from ________ in order to create an atomic bomb.

a)

Great Britain

b)

France

c)

Soviet Union

d)

Germany

15.

According to the NewsELA article, President Truman gave the Japanese people an ultimatum, a choice between meeting our demands or being attacked, on July 26 at Potsdam.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

According to the NewsELA article, the years of research into atomic power also created ______ for the American people.

a)

thousands of jobs

b)

radiation poisoning

c)

a sense of shame

d)

New Deal programs

17.

According to the BrainPOP, the atomic bomb was the first type of ___________, a device that releases the energy trapped inside certain unstable elements.

a)

nuclear weapon

b)

trench warfare

c)

guerrilla warfare

18.

According to the BrainPOP, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was the equivalent of ______ tons of TNT, the key ingredient in dynamite and other explosives

a)

13,000

b)

13

c)

1,000

19.

According to the BrainPOP, by the summer of 1945, Japan and the United States had been fighting each other for 3.5 years in the _______ Ocean.

a)

South Pacific

b)

South Indian

c)

South Atlantic

20.

According to the BrainPOP, in battle after battle, Japan's soldiers showed a willingness to _____ that shocked Allied forces.

a)

die

b)

triumph

c)

surrender

d)

survive

21.

According to the BrainPOP, the Manhattan Project was America's top-secret bomb program.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

According to the BrainPOP, in Hiroshima more than 70,000 people were killed immediately and ____ of all buildings were either damaged or destroyed.

a)

90%

b)

50%

c)

25%

d)

10%

23.

According to the BrainPOP, the vast majority of people killed in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were soldiers, not civilians.

a)

False

b)

True

24.

According to the BrainPOP, the U.S. government believed that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki would save lives because

a)

they believed invading Japan would prove more deadly than the bombings.

b)

they believed the bombs would only destroy buildings, not kill people.

c)

they believed that the bombs would wipe out the entire Japanese military.

25.

According to the BrainPOP, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, tens of thousands of people died of _____.

a)

building collapses

b)

radiation sickness

c)

starvation

d)

drownings in bomb-triggered tsunamis