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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The European Continent.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which writing stated that laws no longer carry any weight with the people who do whatever they please, regardless of what is morally right?
(a) "Voltaire".
(b) "Before the Diet of Worms".
(c) "On Suffering Persecution".
(d) "A Second Crusade".

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

3. According the the sermon "On Suffering Persecution", who holds forth to us the immortal crown?
(a) The Prince.
(b) The Queen.
(c) The King.
(d) God.

4. Who promised that there would be honor and glory later in the Italian campaign?
(a) Napolean Bonaparte.
(b) Frederick the Great.
(c) Leon Trotsky.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

5. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
(a) Marcus Brutus.
(b) Decius Brutus.
(c) Caius Cassius.
(d) Marc Antony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a radical advocate during the Reign of Terror that inspired the National Assembly and people to fight the enemies of the Revolution?

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

3. Who delivered the speech "Before the Diet of Worms"?

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

5. Who told the troops that men under his command are only his allies?

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