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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Informal Speeches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hannibal's speech "To His Soldiers", what river was larger and more impetuous than the Rhone River?
(a) Po River.
(b) Alps River.
(c) Rhine River.
(d) Sardinian River.

2. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?
(a) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(b) William Pitt.
(c) Warren Hastings.
(d) Oliver Cromwell.

3. Who responded to a death sentence for being a heretic in a speech called "On His Condemnation to Death"?
(a) Demosthenes.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Pericles.
(d) Plato.

4. How old was Voltaire when he died?
(a) 64 years old.
(b) 85 years old.
(c) 74 years old.
(d) 84 years old.

5. According to the speech "An Independent Policy", what was always replaced by propaganda in time of war?
(a) Truth.
(b) Brotherhood.
(c) Peace.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Daniel Webster, who erected the government of the U.S.?

2. Who renounced all worldliness and led a life of self-denial and religious devotion, preaching the gospel to the rich and poor?

3. Before leaving to live in the White House, what city did Lincoln live?

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

5. Who believed that we have many things to learn from the West?

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