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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the leader of the Conservative party and was highly respected for his efforts toward Canadian prestige and unity?
(a) Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
(b) Sir Robert Borden.
(c) Sir John Macdonald.
(d) Simon Bolivar.

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

5. Who delivered the speech comparing the words Nationalism and Internationalism?
(a) Mohandas Ghandi.
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(c) Dag Hammarskjold.
(d) Oswaldo Aranha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of trees did Henry Ward Beecher transplant?

2. According to Anthony Eden's speech "A Firm Policy", what should the objective of foreign policy be?

3. Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 and was one of the great American novelists in the 20th century?

4. Who led the famous Pullman strike and identified with the Socialist movement?

5. According to Daniel Webster, who erected the government of the U.S.?

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