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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for over half a century and delivered the speech "Live--I am Coming"?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) John Marshall.
(d) Elihu Root.

2. Who responded to a death sentence for being a heretic in a speech called "On His Condemnation to Death"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Demosthenes.

3. According to the speech "American Labor", what was the best market for American agriculture?
(a) The American Farmer.
(b) The people of Europe.
(c) The poorer nations of Africa.
(d) American labor.

4. Who wrote that "the decision to dissolve Parliament was based on the best interests of the public"?
(a) David Lloyd George.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(d) Oliver Cromwell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?

2. According to the speech "Powers of the President", what was the President responsible for?

3. According to Cicero, who had upheld and continued to uphold freedom by zeal and wisdom?

4. Who was probably the outstanding leader of the abolitionist movement and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

5. Where did the heads of the "Big Four" meet to discuss world problems "at the summit"?

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