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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through United States and the Second World War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who promised that there would be honor and glory later in the Italian campaign?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Frederick the Great.
(d) Napolean Bonaparte.

2. In a speech delivered on February 3, 1800, who refused to negotiate with Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) William Pitt.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Warren Hastings.
(d) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

3. Who was the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) James Conant.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) Cordell Hull.
(d) Charles Lindbergh.

4. Who was known as the "Liberator of Ireland"?
(a) Charles Stewart Parnell.
(b) Robert Emmet.
(c) Arthur Griffith.
(d) Daniel O'Connell.

5. According to Cardinal Mercer, who was the most authoritative teacher of Christian Theology?
(a) St. Benard.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) St. Thomas Aquinas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that the United States now has her second opportunity to make the world safe for democracy?

2. Who was an outspoken imperialist and pursued the expansion of the British empire?

3. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?

4. Who was interested in politics, but placed social reforms before political independence?

5. Who was one of the greatest orators of the French Revolution, although the speakers was impaired by a painful stammer?

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