JFK INAUGURAL ADDRESS – written questionnaire

Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper

1. What is being celebrated ?
2. What does this victory symbolize?
3. What’s the new power held by man today?
4. Where do the rights of man come from?
5. What is this new generation of men unwilling to accept?
6. What is he determined to assure?
7. What is his promise to the old allies?
8. What is his promise to the new free states?
9. What does he expect them to do?
10. What does he promise to the peoples in the huts and villages across the globe?
11. What’s his definition of the role of a free society?
12. What does he call the sister republics?
13. What does he promise them?
14. What is the veiled threat behind this promise?
15. What request does he offer his adversaries?
16. What is he alluding to?
17. What does he say about civility? about negotiations?
18. What does he suggest?
19. Does he mention the bible? Is it surprising?
20. Does he intend to create a new balance of power?
21. Will it be easy to achieve?
22. What are the common enemies of man?
23. What does he feel is his responsibility?
24. What are his final famous words to his fellow Americans?
25. Who- or what will be the final judge of the Americans’ deeds?
26. Who delivered this speech and when?