Selection Quick Checks (English)



1.	What news does Schlesinger learn while eating lunch?
	A.	He learns that President Kennedy has committed suicide.
	B.	He learns that President Kennedy have declared war.
	C.	He learns that President Kennedy has been shot.
	D.	He learns that President Kennedy has given the military the okay to shoot a spy on sight.

2.	How does Schlesinger’s daughter react to this news?
	A.	She says she is proud that her country has done a good thing although it was hard.
	B.	She says she hates President Kennedy.
	C.	She is very troubled and expresses her disappointment in the country by saying she doesn’t want to live there anymore.
	D.	She asks who President Kennedy is.

3.	How do other nations react to the news?
	A.	They are disappointingly uninterested.
	B.	They are furious at America.
	C.	They are pleased with the way America is handling things.
	D.	They are greatly saddened.

4.	What sound does Schlesinger hear while walking to St. Matthew’s Cathedral that he will never forget?
	A.	the roll of the drums and the twittering of the birds
	B.	the sound of his daughter crying and President Kennedy on the radio
	C.	the sound of thousands of people shouting Kennedy's name
	D.	the sound of Kennedy announcing that we are now at war

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