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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 the speech "Atlanta Exposition Address", what percentage of the population in the South was of the Negro race?
(a) One-third.
(b) One-fourth.
(c) One-fifth.
(d) Two-thirds.

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

3. What country was founded on the principles not to oppress the undefended, nor fear the aggressive?
(a) Japan.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Korea.
(d) China.

4. Who delivered the speech "Our Government" one hundred and fifty years after the first Congress of the U.S. met?
(a) Charles Evans Hughes.
(b) Anthony Eden.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Thomas Dewey.

5. In a speech delivered on February 3, 1800, who refused to negotiate with Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) William Pitt.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Warren Hastings.
(d) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the editor for the Emporia Gazette and won the Pulitzer Prize?

2. Near what city was the facility that manufactured deadly nerve poison that created waste disposal issues?

3. According to a speech by Jan C. Smuts, what was wanted by the world?

4. Who responded to a death sentence for being a heretic in a speech called "On His Condemnation to Death"?

5. According to the speech "Loyal Opposition", how many years was it since the Great War in Europe came to an end?

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