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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Great Britain and Ireland.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the leader of the Bolshevist party and first dictator of Russia?
(a) Joseph Stalin.
(b) Nikolai Lenin.
(c) Alexander Kerensky.
(d) Leon Trotsky.

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

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

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

2. According to Charles James Fox, what was Napoleon Bonaparte?

3. In "In Support of the Oppian Law", where did the statues come from that made their way into this city with hostile effect?

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

5. Who was known as the "Liberator of Ireland"?

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