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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Survey of Speeches by Black Americans and Important Speeches of 1974-1997.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who advocated for anti-slavery and woman's suffrage and was arrested for voting in a presidential election?
(a) Jane Addams.
(b) Dred Scott.
(c) Susan B. Anthony.
(d) Elizabeth Stanton.

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

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

4. According to Daniel Webster, who erected the government of the U.S.?
(a) George Washington.
(b) The British.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The people.

5. Who was the American poet that was Ambassador to the Court from 1880-1885?
(a) James Russell Lowell.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Robert Browning.
(d) Charles Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace held in 1936?

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

3. In the speech "Funeral Orations" the speaker addressed which group of people first?

4. Who gave the speech known as the "Funeral Oration?

5. In the speech "To His Troops", where did Catiline say people waited after losing their property?

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