Questions
DIRECTIONS: Decide whether the bolded section is true or false. Write TRUE or FALSE next to each statement, then rewrite each false bolded statement to make it true.
1. In 1971, Congress switched George Washington’s birthday holiday from his birthdate, Feb. 22, to the third Monday in February and it evolved into being called “Mattress sale Monday.” The day now celebrates both Washington’s birthday and President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, which is Feb. 12.
2. To commemorate George Washington’s birthday each year, every public school in the U.S. conducts a reading of his Farewell Address.
3. When speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reminded Western leaders that at the first meeting in 1963, Europe and America were unified in the common purpose of fighting Soviet communism.
4. Secretary Rubio also told Western leaders that we must take back control of our own industries and supply chains and gain control of our national borders.
5. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Catholic priest and two-time Democratic presidential candidate.
6. Jesse Jackson is most well known for being a key leader of the civil rights movement and for being a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and for leading the Rainbow PUSH Coalition civil rights organization.
7. President Trump has sent the world’s largest warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Middle East as a major show of force to the Iranian regime.
8. The mass deployment will allow the US to conduct airstrikes deep within Iran while also providing defensive cover for US troops and allies in the Middle East.
9. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is blocking the U.S. from using British military air bases in Fairford, England and Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to launch a potential attack on Iran.
10. The prime minister is concerned that a US strike on Iran could succeed in ending Iran’s nuclear weapons program and stop its ongoing support of terrorists around the world.
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