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from The “Four Freedoms” Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Comprehension
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
FIRST READ:
1.
In the excerpt from the “Four Freedoms” speech, why does Roosevelt see the
present threat to American security and safety as unprecedented?
No nation has ever attacked or invaded the United States.
b. No nation has ever attempted to destroy the world’s democracies.
c. No nation has ever succeeded in establishing a military dictatorship.
d. No nation has ever requested military assistance from the United States.
a.
2.
According to the excerpt from the “Four Freedoms” speech, why is national
unity critical for the present situation?
National unity will allow the government to enforce special wartime
laws.
b. National unity will lead to economic equality across all social ranks.
c. National unity is the strongest possible defense against an enemy.
d. National unity will make full civil rights secure for all Americans.
a.
3.
In his “Four Freedoms” speech, Roosevelt hopes for certain changes in the nation’s
social and economic systems. Which sentence best describes the changes he feels
are needed?
He hopes to lift many more citizens above the poverty level.
b. He hopes to raise money for the coming war by selling savings bonds.
c. He hopes to enable a government takeover of many private industries.
d. He hopes to order the creation of a national health-insurance program.
a.
4.
As expressed in the excerpt from the “Four Freedoms” speech, what immediate
course should the United States pursue?
negotiating with the dictators and aggressors
b. building up its supply of military weapons
c. sending troops overseas to join the fight
d. holding emergency midterm elections
a.
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GRADE 10 • UNIT 3 • SELECTION TEST
FROM THE "FOUR FREEDOMS" SPEECH BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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5.
One of the “four essential human freedoms” that Roosevelt describes in his
“Four Freedoms” speech is freedom from fear. What are the other three?
Choose three options.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
freedom to travel without restrictions
freedom of speech and expression
freedom from taxation
freedom from want
freedom from debt
freedom of religion
freedom to vote
Concept Vocabulary
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
FIRST READ:
6.
Which of the following best describes rulers who govern by tyranny?
They guarantee legal equality for all.
b. They encourage input from advisors.
c. They exercise absolute, unchecked power.
d. They make all decisions slowly and carefully.
a.
7.
Which of the following is the best example of an act of treachery in wartime?
guarding enemy soldiers who have been taken prisoner
b. giving the enemy important strategic information
c. broadcasting false information to the enemy
d. decoding messages written by the enemy
a.
8.
If two nations agree on a program of disarmament, which of the following
must happen? Base your answer on the meaning of disarmament.
The nations will cut back on their stock of weapons used for war.
b. The nations will guarantee equal civil rights for all their citizens.
c. The nations will establish embassies in one another’s capital cities.
d. The nations will eliminate taxes on the goods they trade with one another.
a.
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Analyze the Text
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
CLOSE READ:
9.
Read this sentence from the “Four Freedoms” speech.
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the
wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.
Which of the following best explains Roosevelt’s meaning?
He warns against those who urge America stay neutral so that they can
make more money.
b. He warns against the secret enemy agents within America who are
already helping to prepare for an enemy invasion.
c. He warns against those who oppose American involvement in the war
because they feel that all warfare is morally wrong.
d. He warns against those who argue against building up the American Air
Force so that the money can go to the Army and Navy.
a.
10.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A Which statement best describes Roosevelt’s views on appeasement, as
stated in the “Four Freedoms” speech?
He clings to the hope that appeasement will resolve the conflict.
b. He worries that appeasement may not please all sides in negotiation.
c. He is confident that appeasement will eventually bring about a victory.
d. He believes that appeasement amounts to the same thing as surrender.
a.
Part B Which of the following sentences from the speech best supports the
answer to Part A?
Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors.
b. A free nation has the right to expect full cooperation from all groups.
c. As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone.
d. The mighty action that we are calling for cannot be based on a disregard
of all things worth fighting for.
a.
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11.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A In his “Four Freedoms” speech, Roosevelt makes this statement.
I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all
Americans to respond to that call.
How does Roosevelt attempt to persuade his audience to accept the burden of
sacrifice in the days ahead?
by implying that the United States may be invaded at any moment
b. by promising that burdens will be fairly distributed among everyone
c. by donating his own salary to the war effort as an example to citizens
d. by offering financial rewards to those willing to accept sacrifice
voluntarily
a.
Part B Which of the following sentences from the speech best supports the
answer to Part A?
Today it is abundantly evident that American citizens everywhere are
demanding and supporting speedy and complete action in recognition of
obvious danger.
b. Their only interest is in a new one-way international law, which lacks
mutuality in its observance and, therefore, becomes an instrument of
oppression.
c. The best way of dealing with the few slackers or troublemakers in our
midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to
use the sovereignty of government to save government.
d. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of [the defense]
program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to
pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.
a.
12.
In this excerpt from the “Four Freedoms” speech, Roosevelt describes the new
national policy to which he has committed himself. In doing so, he invokes the
phrase “by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to
partisanship” three times. Which of the following best describes the effect of
his use of repetition?
He implies that he will carry out his policy regardless of how the general
public feels.
b. He persuades Congress to convince citizens in both parties that his policy
is sound.
c. He explains that he will abolish the two-party system with full approval
of citizens.
d. He emphasizes that his policy already has the full support of citizens in
both parties.
a.
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Analyze Craft and Structure
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
CLOSE READ:
13.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A In which of the following sentences from the “Four Freedoms” speech
does Roosevelt appeal to logic?
That determination of ours, extending over all these years, was proved,
for example, during the quarter century of wars following the French
Revolution.
b. But, as time went on, the American people began to visualize what the
downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy.
c. The American people have unalterably set their faces against that
tyranny.
d. As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we
cannot afford to be softheaded.
a.
Part B Which of the following best explains why the answer to Part A is an
appeal to logic?
because it provides factual evidence that supports the speaker’s claim
b. because it uses heightened language that makes people’s hearts beat
faster
c. because it reminds people that the speaker is an elected leader in a
position of power
d. because it suggests that the speaker is personally affected by the topic of
his speech
a.
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14.
Which of the following excerpts from Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech
contains an appeal to authority?
Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment
being directly assailed in every part of the world—assailed either by
arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek
to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace.
b. Therefore, as your President, performing my constitutional duty to “give
to the Congress information of the state of the Union,” I find it,
unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our
country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far
beyond our borders.
c. Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in
four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the
resources of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia will be
dominated by conquerors.
d. There is much loose talk of our immunity from immediate and direct
invasion from across the seas. Obviously, as long as the British Navy
retains its power, no such danger exists. Even if there were no British
Navy, it is not probable that any enemy would be stupid enough to attack
us by landing troops in the United States from across thousands of miles
of ocean, until it had acquired strategic bases from which to operate.
a.
15.
In which of the following sentences from the “Four Freedoms” speech does
Roosevelt appeal to his audience’s emotions?
In the recent national election there was no substantial difference
between the two great parties in respect to that national policy.
b. Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate
improvement.
c. In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this
great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying
today.
d. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of
tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
a.
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Word Study
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:
16.
The Latin suffix -ify means “to make.” Use this information and your
knowledge of the Latin root -pac- to choose the correct definition of pacify.
to make someone peaceful
b. to make someone cheerful
c. to make someone afraid
a.
d.
17.
to make someone angry
The suffix -ist means “one who believes in” or “one who supports.” Given this
information and your knowledge of the Latin root -pac-, which is the correct
definition of the word pacifist?
one who supports war
b. one who supports peace
c. one who supports liberty
d. one who supports equality
a.
Conventions
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:
18.
Which of the following is a noun phrase?
to teach students
b. the rushing river
c. said with emotion
d. wisely and courageously
a.
19.
Read the following sentence.
In his “Four Freedoms,” speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “A good society is able
to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.”
Which of the following excerpts from the sentence is a noun phrase?
Franklin D. Roosevelt said
b. A good society
c. to face
d. is able to
a.
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20.
Read this quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech.
The inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is dependent
upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.
Which of the following excerpts from the quotation is a noun phrase?
the inner and abiding
b. economic and political
c. economic and political systems
d. is dependent upon
a.
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