Ich bin ein Berliner Speech Quizzes
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Q. Kennedy based his famous Ich bin ein Berliner phrase on a Latin saying that meant what?
I am a Roman citizen.
I am going to the vomitorium now.
I love the Germans.
Hail Caesar.
Q. What advice did Kennedy give to people who were unconvinced of the pitfalls of communism?
Come to Berlin and see them for yourself.
Try it out in your own country and report back to me.
Read a book once in a while.
Start a clothing optional communal farm.
Q. What prediction did Kennedy make for the future of Berlin?
It would be reunited as one city.
It would be getting wall number two any day now.
It would be the cause of a nuclear war.
It would change its mascot to a talking wall.
Q. Why did Kennedy repeatedly make reference to "eighteen years" in the speech?
That's how much time had passed since the end of World War II.
That's how much time had passed since the end of World War I.
That's how much time had passed since the end of the Cold War.
That's how much time had passed since Kennedy had discovered Berlin.
Q. Why did Kennedy call Berlin an "island of freedom"?
West Berlin is within the borders of East Germany.
He made the mistake of not realizing that Berlin is a peninsula.
Berlin is completely surrounded by pirate waters.
Freedom Island was the favorite TV show of the Berliners.