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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The arms race was between the United States and what country?
(a) U.S.S.R.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

2. Who wrote about the need to "repress" women?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Cato the Elder.
(c) Pericles.
(d) Demosthenes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the speech "Nationalism in India", how did the speaker feel that the countrymen will truly gain their India?

2. In the speech "On His Condemnation to Death", who did the speaker tell the judges to punish?

3. According to the speech, "American and the War", what is not America's noblest destiny?

4. In the speech "To His Troops", Lucius Sergius Catiline stated two armies opposed their progress. Rome was one, what was the other army?

5. What did Winston Churchill say is here now, clear and shining, for both our countries in his "An Iron Curtain has Descended" speech?

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