Questions

DIRECTIONS: For the bolded part of each statement, circle the correct answer.

1. Veterans Day is always observed officially on November 4 / November 11, regardless of the day of the week on which it falls.

2. Veterans Day was called Armistice Day until 1954 as it was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I / the Civil War.

3. President John F. Kennedy / President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first Veterans Day Proclamation in 1954.

4. Veterans Day is a day for military families / all Americans to honor and thank our veterans who served in the military – in wartime or peacetime.

5. Recruits for NASA’s next astronaut class will be required to relocate to Houston / Cape Canaveral where they’ll work at the Johnson Space Center. Recruits will ultimately “live and work” on the moon.

6. The NASA Administrator said astronauts on the moon missions will need to possess “technical excellence, sound judgment, teamwork and extreme caution / courage.”

7. In addition to all educational, experience and physical requirements, applicants must be willing to deploy to space for 12 months or longer / a month at most, accepting extreme isolation, austere living conditions and separation from loved ones.

8. The three men who were charged Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department with plotting terrorist attacks in the U.S. and Europe are linked to the Iran's IRGC / the British government.

9. The British airbase targeted by the three men for a terrorist attack, which was discovered before being carried out, housed U.S. bombers and Israeli / American service members for decades.

10. Only one of the three men charged has been arrested so far - Mohammad al-Saadi. He is in federal prison in Brooklyn, NY / London, England. From jail, al-Saadi continued directing terrorist activities by using coded language in communications with his mother and sister(s).