Quick quiz.

Name: --

NEWS: U.S. IMMIGRATION; AFGHANISTAN, PAGE 4

Select the letter of the word, phrase, or number that best completes each sentence.

-- 1. President Bush recently announced plans to offer --.

A. political asylum to all Haitian refugees

B. temporary legal status to some illegal immigrants

C. guidelines that judges must follow when they set prison sentences for convicted felons

-- 2. One way the White House is working to keep the U.S. safer is to --.

A. make it easier for the government to keep track of some illegal immigrants

B. cooperate with the Mexican government in tracking down drug smugglers

C. Both A and B are correct.

-- 3. The -- recently approved a new democratic constitution for Afghanistan.

A. United Nations Security Council

B. Palestinian Authority

C. Ioya jirga

-- 4. Afghanistan's new constitution calls for guaranteed representation in the national assembly for --.

A. Afghan women

B. former Taliban government officials

C. Baath Party delegates

-- 5. Afghan men and women gathered in -- to debate their new national constitution.

A. Tehran

B. Islamabad

C. Kabul

USA: STUCK BEHIND BARS, PAGES 6-7

Decide whether each sentence is true, false, or an opinion.

-- 6. Mandatory minimum sentences are fair because they help protect people against drug-related crime.

-- 7. Mandatory minimum sentence laws resulted from the USA Patriot Act.

-- 8. The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world.

-- 9. The "three-strikes" law applies to federal judges who fail to impose mandatory minimum sentences.

-- 10. A shortage of prison funding is one reason some states are re-examining their use of mandatory minimum sentences.

WORLD: GERMANY: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, PAGES 8-11

Match the clue in the left column with the answer in the right column.

-- 11.25               A. helped cause the rise of Adolph
                          Hitler in Germany
-- 12. global          B. has partly led some Germans
       economy            to encourage young foreign
                          workers into the country
-- 13. weak            C. about the number of years
       democracy          Germany was divided into
                          democratic West Germany and
                          Communist East Germany
-- 14. low birthrate   D. number of nations that will
                          belong to the European Union
                          as of spring 2004
-- 15. 45              E. has resulted in many jobs and
                          capital going to poorer nations

AMERICAN HISTORY: WORLD WAR I, PAGES 12-14

Write the letter of the correct answer on the line provided.

-- 16. What proved to be the deadliest weapon(s) used during World War I?

A. the atomic bomb

B. chemical weapons

C. newer versions of the machine gun and the tank

-- 17. What contributed to the conflict in the Balkan Peninsula rapidly spreading across Europe?

A. military alliances

B. a strong sense of nationalism

C. Both A and B are correct.

-- 18. What specific acts helped persuade the U.S. to join the side of the Allies in 1917?

A. German submarines attacked and sank several American ships.

B. President Wilson agreed to share power in the Balkan Peninsula with France.

C. Germany invaded Mexico in 1917.

-- 19. What was known as "no-man's-land"?

A. a stretch of forest that was the scene of heavy fighting in Poland

B. the area between enemy trenches on the battlefront

C. a code name for a French beach that was the site of a massive Allied invasion

-- 20. Despite causing many casualties, why were chemical weapons not a decisive force in the Great War?

A. Because chemical weapons had been outlawed by the Geneva Protocol.

B. Because armies found ways to protect themselves against poison gases.

C. Because atomic bombs were more powerful and destructive.