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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. Who delivered the speech "Defense Against the Charges" and ultimately saved the speaker from the guillotine?
(a) Marat.
(b) Mirabeau.
(c) Danton.
(d) Robespierre.

2. Who wrote about Phillip's "violation of the peace"?
(a) Cato the Elder.
(b) Demosthenes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pericles.

3. Which territory did Sir Wilfrid Laurier discuss on the floor of the House of Commons?
(a) Washington.
(b) Vancouver.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Oregon.

4. What country was Warren Hastings the British governor?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Honduras.
(d) India.

5. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Martin Van Buren.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?

2. Who was a powerful supporter of Cicero in defeating the conspiracy of Catiline against the Roman government?

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

4. According to John Bright, what law was very unsettled or bad?

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

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