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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 gave the speech known as the "Funeral Oration?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Demosthenes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pericles.

2. Who was the leader of the Bolshevist party and first dictator of Russia?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Joseph Stalin.
(c) Nikolai Lenin.
(d) Alexander Kerensky.

3. Who was a powerful supporter of Cicero in defeating the conspiracy of Catiline against the Roman government?
(a) Marcus Brutus.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Cato the Younger.
(d) Marc Antony.

4. According to John Bright, what law was very unsettled or bad?
(a) State law.
(b) Trade law.
(c) Trent's law.
(d) Maritime law.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote about Phillip's "violation of the peace"?

3. According the the sermon "On Suffering Persecution", who holds forth to us the immortal crown?

4. According to Charles James Fox, what was Napoleon Bonaparte?

5. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?

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