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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the speech "Farewell to the Old Guard", how many years had the speaker accompanied the soldiers on their road to "honor and glory"?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 15 years.

2. In the speech "On His Condemnation to Death", who did the speaker tell the judges to punish?
(a) The king.
(b) The judges.
(c) The Athenians.
(d) His sons.

3. According to Cicero, who had upheld and continued to uphold freedom by zeal and wisdom?
(a) Caius Marius.
(b) Marcus Fulvius.
(c) Caius Caesar.
(d) Lucius Opimius.

4. According to Cicero in "First Oration Against Catiline", who was put to death on mere suspicion?
(a) Caius Marius.
(b) Caius Gracchus.
(c) Marcus Fulvius.
(d) Lucius Opimius.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Voltaire when he died?

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

4. What empire did Isocrates tell Greece to resist?

5. Who wrote about the need to "repress" women?

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