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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The United States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?
(a) John Bright.
(b) Thomas Babington Macaulay.
(c) Richard Cobden.
(d) George Canning.

2. In the speech "Funeral Orations" the speaker addressed which group of people first?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) The sons.
(c) The forefathers.
(d) The victims.

3. Who was known as a militant and nick-named "The Tiger"?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Georges Clemenceau.
(c) Alexander Kerensky.
(d) Otto Van Bismarck.

4. In the sermon, "On Suffering Persecution", ignominy and what were two opposites?
(a) Reputation.
(b) Dignity.
(c) Envy.
(d) Greed.

5. In the speech "On His Condemnation to Death", who did the speaker tell the judges to punish?
(a) His sons.
(b) The Athenians.
(c) The judges.
(d) The king.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who delivered the speech "Before the Diet of Worms"?

2. Who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for over half a century and delivered the speech "Live--I am Coming"?

3. Which writing stated that laws no longer carry any weight with the people who do whatever they please, regardless of what is morally right?

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

5. Who was a Shawnee and said that white people have no right to take the land from the Indians?

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