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Quiz for Document 22–2: Eugene V. Debs, Speech Delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to Debs, how should working-class people respond to the patriotic appeal of leaders?

They should set differences aside and join a common cause.

They should remember their fathers’ legacy of fighting for a common cause.

They should be suspicious and alert because deception often hid behind patriotism.

They should remember that they had pledged their first allegiance to the Socialist Party.

2. How did Debs explain the relationship between war and capitalism?

Most wars occurred because of the desires of capitalist elites.

Wars were detrimental to the functioning of capitalist economies.

Class war was necessary to defeat the capitalist system.

Wars were necessary for the capitalist system to survive.

3. What method for societal change did Debs advocate?

Armed revolution

Labor and political organization

Economic boycotts

Mass civil disobedience