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

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

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

4. Who was that first Secretary of Treasury that was killed in a duel?
(a) George Washington.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

5. In what United States city did Sir Wilfrid Laurier defend Great Britain's cause, and support for the Great War?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the thirty-first President of the U.S. that delivered a speech on the Bill of Rights on Constitution Day?

2. Who was very prominent in the Bolshevist revolution and reported on a Nazi air attack?

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

4. According to the speech "On the Dissolution of Parliament", who was seized so Colonel Overton might lead the army?

5. Why were unions first formed?

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