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1. Ronald Reagan said there was nothing better for the inside of a man than something. What?
2. "How do you tell a Communist?" asked Reagan. "Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin." According to the rest of the quote, how do you tell an anti-Communist?
3. How did Reagan respond when asked by ABC's Sam Donaldson if he thought Martin Luther King had been a Communist?
4. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - What wall?
5. What, according to Ronald Reagan, was "the eleventh commandment?"
6. In his 1966 run for governor of California, what did Ronald Reagan say when asked what kind of governor he'd be?
7. In a 1983 speech to a business organization, what did Reagan say that angered many feminists?
8. What prompted President Reagan in 1986 to tell 'Time' magazine's Hugh Sidey "There is bitter bile in my throat?"
9. "Doveryay, no proveryay," Reagan was fond of saying while dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev. What is the meaning of this old Russian proverb?
10. When he met Sugar Ray Leonard, who had just unified the welterweight boxing title by beating Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns, what did Reagan say?
11. Reagan's first national exposure as a political figure came in a 1964 televised speech for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Which line below is from that speech?
12. President Reagan told reporters that he "learned a lot" during a 1982 trip to Latin America. What was one of those things he learned?
13. What figured prominently in one of Reagan's favorite stories to illustrate his own optimism?
14. "Here's looking at you, kid," said Ronald Reagan in a toast to a prominent American on her birthday. Who was he toasting?
15. "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." From what are these words of Ronald Reagan?
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