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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. According to President Nixon, what title can one receive that was the greatest honor of history?
(a) President of the United States.
(b) War monger.
(c) Peacemaker.
(d) Humanitarian.

2. According to the speech "On the Dissolution of Parliament", who was seized so Colonel Overton might lead the army?
(a) Oliver Cromwell.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) General Monk.
(d) Sir Robert Walpole.

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

4. What empire did Isocrates tell Greece to resist?
(a) The Ottoman.
(b) The Roman .
(c) The Persian.
(d) The Prussian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization required a nuclear backdrop far beyond the capability of any Western European nation to supply?

2. What has "fixed a deep gulf between you and us" according to Henry Highland Garnet?

3. What country did Daw Aung San Suu Kyi live?

4. Eisenhower stated that a common bind existed between a rice grower in Burma and a wheat planter of what U.S. state?

5. In Einstein's speech "Peace in the Atomic Age", what appeared to be on the public horizon as a probable and attainable goal?

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