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1. No other flag or pennant should be placed above, or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the _________ may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy.

Latin cross
Religious services flag
Church flag
Church pennant

 2. The flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.

True
False

3. When the flag is displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the observer’s _________.

right
left

4. The flag should be raised _______ and lowered _____________.

briskly; briskly
briskly; ceremoniously
ceremoniously; briskly
ceremoniously; ceremoniously

5. The flag can be washed or dry-cleaned.

True
False

6. The flag should be placed to the ______ of the speaker’s podium.

right
left

7. In order to establish an official flag for the new nation, the Continental Congress passed the first Flag Act on __________.

July 4, 1777
November 6, 1776
July 4, 1776
June 14, 1777

8. This flag was the only U.S. Flag to have more than 13 stripes.

15-star flag
13-star flag
20-star flag
49-star flag
none of the above

 9. The famous name "Old Glory" was coined by __________.

George Washington
John Paul Jones
Daniel Webster
Captain Stephen Driver

 10. The flag shall be flown at half-staff _______ days from the death of the President or former President of the United States.

180
30
365
5


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