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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through United States Government.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the speech "On His Condemnation to Death", who did the speaker tell the judges to punish?
(a) The judges.
(b) The king.
(c) His sons.
(d) The Athenians.

3. Who was convicted of bribery?
(a) Sir Edward Grey.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) David Lloyd George.
(d) Sir Robert Walpole.

4. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
(a) Decius Brutus.
(b) Caius Cassius.
(c) Marc Antony.
(d) Marcus Brutus.

5. In the speech "Funeral Orations" the speaker addressed which group of people first?
(a) The barbarians.
(b) The victims.
(c) The sons.
(d) The forefathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Edmund Burke, what inhered in some sensible object and became the criterion of the colonists happiness?

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

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

4. Who promised that there would be honor and glory later in the Italian campaign?

5. According to Sir Robert Borden's speech "The Voice of the Empire", how many years had gone by without a threat of their empire?

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