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Question 1

How did the United States respond to the Soviet Union's testing of its first atomic bomb?
 
  a. President Truman called for the formation of an international agency to control atomic energy.
  b. Secretary of State Acheson asked that a summit be scheduled for negotiation of differences between thesuperpowers.
 c. The United States called for an agreement between the superpowers on the number of nuclear-capablewarheads each side would be allowed to have.
 d. The United States began development of the hydrogen bomb.

Question 2

As New England fathers ran out of farmland to provide for their sons,
 
  a. younger sons left their families behind to seek their fortunes further west.
  b. they began to invest in the carrying trade and banking houses of new England's urban centers.
  c. rivalries between sons over the limited resources turned increasingly fierce.
  d. the bolder sons ventured south to try their hand on tobacco and sugar plantations.



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