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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 one of the greatest orators of the French Revolution, although the speakers was impaired by a painful stammer?
(a) Frederick the Great.
(b) Louis XVI.
(c) Mirabeau.
(d) Desmoulins.

2. In what year was "On the Crown" written?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 344 B.C.
(c) 330 A.D.
(d) 540 B.C.

3. According to Daniel Webster, who erected the government of the U.S.?
(a) The British.
(b) George Washington.
(c) The people.
(d) The Indians.

4. According to Edmund Burke, what inhered in some sensible object and became the criterion of the colonists happiness?
(a) Love.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Peace.

5. Who renounced all worldliness and led a life of self-denial and religious devotion, preaching the gospel to the rich and poor?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) St. Benard.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) St. Francis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who responded to a death sentence for being a heretic in a speech called "On His Condemnation to Death"?

2. Who wrote that "the decision to dissolve Parliament was based on the best interests of the public"?

3. According to Hannibal's speech "To His Soldiers", what river was larger and more impetuous than the Rhone River?

4. Who led the famous Pullman strike and identified with the Socialist movement?

5. Who wrote about the need to "repress" women?

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