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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Informal Speeches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?
(a) George Canning.
(b) John Bright.
(c) Richard Cobden.
(d) Thomas Babington Macaulay.

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

3. Who supported non-intervention and national and liberal movements in Europe?
(a) Thomas Babington Macaulay.
(b) John Bright.
(c) Richard Cobden.
(d) George Canning.

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

5. Who was one of the greatest orators of the French Revolution, although the speakers was impaired by a painful stammer?
(a) Frederick the Great.
(b) Mirabeau.
(c) Desmoulins.
(d) Louis XVI.

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant event of the American Revolution did Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks and Carr die?

2. How old was Voltaire when he died?

3. What country was the Volga district the center of attention?

4. What empire did Isocrates tell Greece to resist?

5. According to William Green's "Modern Trade Unionism", what should not be the heritage of any limited group?

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