2. Read the following statement and select the best answer which summarizes the meaning: "When faith is overwhelmed by self-doubt, as happened during the Depressions of the 1930's or after the debate in Vietnam, the United States pulls back on itself." (a) The United States is known the world over for its constitutional separation of church and state and for its pioneering commitment to religious freedom. b) Evangelicals broke the stranglehold of the older churches..and made the United States a nation of sects rather than churches (c) The empire of liberty has been made and unmade by its faith. (d) Their consciences were troubled, but their lifestyles remained unchanged..

2. Read the following statement and select the best answer which summarizes the meaning: "When faith is overwhelmed by self-doubt, as happened during the Depressions of the 1930's or after the debate in Vietnam, the United States pulls back on itself." (a) The United States is known the world over for its constitutional separation of church and state and for its pioneering commitment to religious freedom. b) Evangelicals broke the stranglehold of the older churches..and made the United States a nation of sects rather than churches (c) The empire of liberty has been made and unmade by its faith. (d) Their consciences were troubled, but their lifestyles remained unchanged..