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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Canada; South America, South Africa, India and China.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In a speech delivered on February 3, 1800, who refused to negotiate with Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(b) William Pitt.
(c) Oliver Cromwell.
(d) Warren Hastings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a Shawnee and said that white people have no right to take the land from the Indians?

2. Who was convicted of bribery?

3. Who gave the speech known as the "Funeral Oration?

4. In the speech "Farewell to the Old Guard", how many years had the speaker accompanied the soldiers on their road to "honor and glory"?

5. Who did Grover Cleveland refer to as a discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle?

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