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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 was the leader of the Bolshevist party and first dictator of Russia?
(a) Joseph Stalin.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Nikolai Lenin.
(d) Alexander Kerensky.

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

3. According to John L. Lewis' "The Rights of Labor", what opposed communism?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Our way of life.
(c) Unionization.
(d) Free Trade.

4. According to the speech, "A Grave Situation", how many years did the British Fleet control the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Over 100 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) More than 250 years.
(d) 50 years.

5. According to the speech "Bill of Rights", what was only safe by a division of powers and local self-government?
(a) Unity.
(b) Peace.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, what still offered her bounty, and human efforts multiplied it?

3. What was torn from nature a secret so vast in its potentialities that our minds cower from the terror it creates?

4. Who was the American poet that was Ambassador to the Court from 1880-1885?

5. In the speech, "The Search for International Cooperation", what country did Pierre Mandes-France suggest France had a concern?

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