By NADIA TAHA

1. Senator Barack Obama said Thursday that he might “refine” his policies for _________ after meeting with military commanders there later this summer. But hours later he held a second news conference to emphasize his commitment to the withdrawal of all combat troops from within 16 months of taking office.
	Iran Iraq Afghanistan Japan Germany	Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
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2. The _________ military duped FARC guerrillas in a raid that freed 15 hostages, including politician Ingrid Betancourt, an action that some analysts suggested might help push the rebels to negotiate for peace.
	Venezualan Ecuadorian Colombian Argentine Mexican	Mauricio Duenas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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3. Wildfires have prompted some towns and cities in _____________ to impose a temporary ban on the use of fireworks.
	Utah Nevada Arizona California New Mexico
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4. The U.S. proposed sanctions on _____________ including an arms embargo and punitive measures against those responsible for undermining the presidential election through violence.
	Rwanda Ethiopia Sudan Kenya Zimbabwe	Alexander Joe/Agence France-Presse — Getty Image
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5. Two supervisors at a kosher meatpacking plant in _________ where hundreds of illegal immigrants were rounded up in May were arrested Thursday on criminal immigration charges.
	Ohio Indiana Illinois Idaho Iowa
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6. The presidential campaign turned personal on Monday as John McCain’s camp offered an unusually sharp and vigorous defense against attacks on the relevance of his military experience to national leadership. The McCain campaign appeared incensed by comments made Sunday by an Obama supporter, the retired Gen. _______________, that even heroic service by the Arizona senator as a naval aviator in Vietnam did not prepare him for the presidency.
	Wesley K. Clark Colin Powell H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jack Keane Merrill A. McPeak	LM Otero/Associated Press
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7. _______ said it would appeal a French court’s order that it pay 38.6 million euros ($60.8 million) in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, the latest round in a long-running legal battle over the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet. Pictured here, Pierre Gode, an LVMH adviser, outside of court.
	EBay Amazon Zappos Bluefly Etsy	Antoine Antoniol/Bloomberg News
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8. In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western ________ held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified parts of the decision were released on Monday.
	Afghanistan India Indonesia Pakistan China
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9. ___________ tricked his investors, lied to his lawyers and misled police. But in the end, he listened to his mother. The fugitive former manager of the Bayou Group hedge fund, whose faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge and subsequent disappearance last month set off an international manhunt, turned himself in Wednesday morning in Southwick, Mass., just after speaking to his mother by phone.
	Edward S. Lampert David Einhorn Angelo R. Mozilo Kenneth Lay Samuel Israel III	Brian Snyder/Reuters
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10. Colombian commandos disguised as rebels spirited 15 hostages to freedom on Wednesday, including __________________, a French-Colombian politician held for six years, and three American military contractors, according to the hostages and the Colombian authorities.
	Cristina Kirchner Clara Rojas Ingrid Betancourt Marie-Ségolène Royal Élisabeth Morin	Fernando Vergara/Associated Press
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11. ________________’s boyhood home has been found. Researchers announced Wednesday that remains excavated in the last three years were those of the long-sought dwelling, on the old family farm in Virginia 50 miles south of Washington. The house stood on a terrace overlooking the Rappahannock River, where legend has it the boy threw a stone or a coin across to Fredericksburg.
	John Adams Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson George Washington Patrick Henry	Mesick, Cohen, Wilson, Baker Architects
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12. Sales of new cars and trucks plunged to their lowest level in more than _______ in June, as high gas prices and a weak economy kept American consumers away from dealer showrooms.
	one year two years five years seven years 10 years	Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
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13. _____________, a visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine, giving it energetic expression in a glossy weekly named for and devoted to the boisterous city that fascinated him — New York — died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.
	Henry Luce Clay Felker George Lois William Shawn Benjamin C. Bradlee	Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
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14. Officials in Barack Obama’s campaign say they are bullish on the South, and they have signaled their aggressiveness with early campaign appearances there. And yet since the South began to shift away from the Democrats in the __________, it has become one of the biggest and reddest of the Republican strongholds.
	1990s 1970s 1980s 1950s 1960s	Damon Winter/The New York Times
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15. A championship 44 years in the waiting is worth a special celebration. Spain made sure it did not disappoint any of its fans Sunday night, both during its 1-0 victory against __________ to win the European Championship and after it.
	Russia Croatia Austria Germany Italy	Vincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse
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