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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event inspired the speech known as "Funeral Oration"?
(a) The Peloponnesian War.
(b) The Persian War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Italian War.

2. Who was convicted of bribery?
(a) Sir Edward Grey.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Sir Robert Walpole.
(d) David Lloyd George.

3. Who wrote that "the decision to dissolve Parliament was based on the best interests of the public"?
(a) Sir Edward Grey.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(d) David Lloyd George.

4. Who was a radical advocate during the Reign of Terror that inspired the National Assembly and people to fight the enemies of the Revolution?
(a) Danton.
(b) Mirabeau.
(c) Louis XVI.
(d) Desmoulins.

5. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) John Adams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What country was Warren Hastings the British governor?

3. Who did Grover Cleveland refer to as a discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle?

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

5. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?

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