Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English

We Choose to Go to the Moon

Directions:  This quiz is based on President John F. Kennedy's historic "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech on September 12, 1962.  For each question, please mark the BEST answer based on the speech you have just heard/read.

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1: The historic We Choose to Go to the Moon speech by President Kennedy was given at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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2: JFK was a professor at Rice University before becoming the US president.

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3: Although half the scientists the world had ever known were alive when JFK spoke at Rice University, there were many unknown, unanswered, and unfinished scientific challenges.

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4: JFK condensed the 50,000 years of man's recorded history to 50 years to show that humans still have a long way to go before reaching the stars.

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5: JFK believed that if the US didn't go ahead with the exploration of space, no one would.

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6: JFK believed the conquest of space could bring new knowledge, benefits, and progress to all people.

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7: JFK framed the exploration of space as one of the most important contributions made during his presidency.

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8: At the time of JFK's speech in 1962, most satelites circling the earth were made in the US.

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9: At the time of JFK's speech in 1962, the US was behind the Soviet Union in manned space flight.

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10: Because the 1962 US space budget had tripled from the previous year and was greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined, taxes would have to rise from 40 cents to 50 cents per pack.

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