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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What empire did Isocrates tell Greece to resist?
(a) The Persian.
(b) The Ottoman.
(c) The Prussian.
(d) The Roman .

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

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

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

5. 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) "Before the Diet of Worms".
(b) "A Second Crusade".
(c) "On Suffering Persecution".
(d) "Voltaire".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who expressed strong admiration for Voltaire?

3. In the speech "To His Troops", where did Catiline say people waited after losing their property?

4. Who was the leader of the Bolshevist party and first dictator of Russia?

5. According to Cicero, who had upheld and continued to uphold freedom by zeal and wisdom?

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