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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 renounced all worldliness and led a life of self-denial and religious devotion, preaching the gospel to the rich and poor?
(a) St. Francis.
(b) John Calvin.
(c) St. Benard.
(d) Martin Luther.

2. Who told the troops that men under his command are only his allies?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Napolean Bonaparte.
(d) Frederick the Great.

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

4. In "In Support of the Oppian Law", where did the statues come from that made their way into this city with hostile effect?
(a) Venice.
(b) Rome.
(c) Athens.
(d) Syracuse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was convicted of bribery?

2. What empire did Isocrates tell Greece to resist?

3. Who said that "a person should seek to be holy on earth in order to achieve rewards in heaven"?

4. Who wrote that "the decision to dissolve Parliament was based on the best interests of the public"?

5. According to Cicero in "First Oration Against Catiline", who was put to death on mere suspicion?

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