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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 significant event of the American Revolution did Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks and Carr die?
(a) The midnight ride.
(b) The Boston Battle.
(c) The Boston Tea Party.
(d) The Boston Massacre.

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

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

4. Who was an outspoken imperialist and pursued the expansion of the British empire?
(a) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Joseph Chamberlain.

5. Who was a great speaker and debater that was opposed to The League of Nations?
(a) William Edgar Borah.
(b) Elihu Root.
(c) Eugene Victor Debs.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that if everyone understood the facts, no one would question England's involvement in the war?

2. Who delivered the speech "Defense Against the Charges" and ultimately saved the speaker from the guillotine?

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

4. Which territory did Sir Wilfrid Laurier discuss on the floor of the House of Commons?

5. In the speech "To His Troops", Lucius Sergius Catiline stated two armies opposed their progress. Rome was one, what was the other army?

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