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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Cicero in "First Oration Against Catiline", who was put to death on mere suspicion?
(a) Marcus Fulvius.
(b) Lucius Opimius.
(c) Caius Gracchus.
(d) Caius Marius.

2. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
(a) Decius Brutus.
(b) Marc Antony.
(c) Caius Cassius.
(d) Marcus Brutus.

3. Who was an outspoken imperialist and pursued the expansion of the British empire?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(c) Joseph Chamberlain.
(d) Sir Edward Grey.

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

5. Who delivered the speech "Before the Diet of Worms"?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) John Calvin.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Edmund Burke, what inhered in some sensible object and became the criterion of the colonists happiness?

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

3. Who gave the speech known as the "Funeral Oration?

4. Who was probably the outstanding leader of the abolitionist movement and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

5. Who made a plea to Lord Mayor in 1882 to come to the aid of the Russian Jews?

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