1.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 occurred after which country aided East Germans desiring to flee to West Germany?

(A)

Poland

(B)

Romania

(C)

Sweden

(D)

Hungary

2.

The total public debt of the U.S. government is currently

(A)

more than $21 trillion.

(B)

$1.4 trillion.

(C)

almost $12 trillion.

(D)

about 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product.

3.

The ruling by a federal judge that detainees at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba could be released into the United States

(A)

was opposed by the Obama administration.

(B)

was upheld by a federal appeals court.

(C)

resulted in the freeing of a group of Chinese Uighurs.

(D)

was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

4.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture will be built next to the

(A)

Smithsonian Institution.

(B)

National Museum of American History.

(C)

National Air and Space Museum.

(D)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.

5.

The royal family of which Ertugrul Osman was a member was expelled from Turkey by

(A)

the British army.

(B)

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

(C)

Abdul Hamid II.

(D)

the Janissaries.