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Think you have the relationship between Church and State down cold? Try our quiz and see how well you know the history of religion in Washington! Be sure to keep track of your answers. Then, when you're finished, click here for answers!

Be sure to tune in Saturday at 9pm / Midnight ET and Sunday 4pm ET for a FOX News special — One Nation Under God: Religion and History in Washington, D.C.


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Question 1: What Founding Father wrote, "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other?"

A. John Hancock
B. Samuel Adams
C. John Adams
D. Bejamin Franklin

Question 2: Who was the first U.S. president to write a letter to a Jewish congregation?

A. Thomas Jefferson
B. George Washington
C. James Madison
D. Martin Van Buren


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Question 3: Where does the original text of the Constitution (not the Bill Of Rights, which was added later) mention religion?

A. Article IV
B. Article VI
C. The Constitution does not even mention God
D. Both A & B are correct

Question 4: What famous observer of America wrote "I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion, for who can read the human heart? But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions?"

A. Gustave de Beaumont
B. Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
C. Sir Thomas More
D. Alexis de Tocqueville

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Question 5: Which president, during a White House dinner, told a clergyman, "I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side?"

A. Thomas Jefferson
B. James Buchanan
C. Dwight Eisenhower
D. Abraham Lincoln

Question 6: When was the phrase "under God" added to the Pledge Of Allegiance?

A. 1892
B. 1954
C. 1942
D. 1492


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Question 7: "God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin, has been called the United States' unofficial national anthem. Berlin signed over the royalties the song earns to what two groups?

A. The Knights of Columbus and the Daughters of the American Revolution
B. The Freemasons and the Church of Scientology
C. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America
D. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party

Question 8: What Church have more presidents belonged to than any other?

A. Episcopal
B. Lutheran
C. Presbyterian
D. Catholic