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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was known as a militant and nick-named "The Tiger"?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Georges Clemenceau.
(c) Otto Van Bismarck.
(d) Alexander Kerensky.

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

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

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

5. In the speech "To His Troops", where did Catiline say people waited after losing their property?
(a) Athens.
(b) Carthage.
(c) Rome.
(d) Corinth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who promised that there would be honor and glory later in the Italian campaign?

2. Who was one of the greatest orators of the French Revolution, although the speakers was impaired by a painful stammer?

3. Who wrote about Phillip's "violation of the peace"?

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

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?

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