Questions
DIRECTIONS: For the bolded part of each statement, circle the correct answer.
1. Fifty-eight people were shot and 8 people were killed in Chicago over Labor Day weekend / the summer of 2025.
2. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker / Gavin Newsom oppose President Trump’s offer of sending in the National Guard to assist local police in making Chicago streets safe from violent criminals. They have tried to downplay crime, saying that shootings are down year-over-year.
3. A California woman faces five felony charges / a warning after she was accused of registering her dog to vote and illegally mailing in ballots registered under her dog’s name in two elections.
4. The woman’s election fraud was discovered when election officials investigated suspicious ballots / the woman self-reported that she had registered her dog to vote and cast two ballots in her dog’s name, authorities said.
5. Federal and immigration agents conducted a massive sweep at a Hyundai plant in Georgia last week, arresting 475 people as part of a random sweep of factories / month-long investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices.
6. At least 300 of those arrested were from Japan / South Korea.
7. On September 11, 2001, Islamist terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people and injured many others in the worst attack against the US in our nation’s history. They were from the terrorist group al Shabaab / al Qaeda.
8. Thursday marked 24 years since 9/11, when terrorists hijacked 4 planes and killed 2,977 people at the World Trade Center in New York City, the U.S. Pentagon / the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC and in a field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
9. President Donald Trump launched the “America Prays” campaign, calling on Americans to hold weekly prayer gatherings in the lead-up to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution / Declaration of Independence next year.
10. President Trump said, “America has always been a nation that believes in the power of prayer” and said we should “rededicate ourselves to one nation under God / E pluribus unum.”
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