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SAT US History Practice Question

. . . if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened,the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people-with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was referring to the

  1. A.outbreak of the Civil War
  2. B.bombing of Pearl Harbor
  3. C.break-in at the Democratic national headquar ters in the Watergate buildings
  4. D.assassination of President John F. Kennedy
  5. E.fixing of the 1919 World Series

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