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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Isocrates, which war did he believe may be the most famous of Athenian history?
(a) The Italian War.
(b) Athens War.
(c) World War I.
(d) Persian War.

2. Who supported non-intervention and national and liberal movements in Europe?
(a) John Bright.
(b) Thomas Babington Macaulay.
(c) Richard Cobden.
(d) George Canning.

3. What event inspired the speech known as "Funeral Oration"?
(a) The Peloponnesian War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Persian War.
(d) The Italian War.

4. According to Cicero, who had upheld and continued to uphold freedom by zeal and wisdom?
(a) Marcus Fulvius.
(b) Caius Caesar.
(c) Lucius Opimius.
(d) Caius Marius.

5. Who was a philosopher, diplomat and statesmen that had great abilities in different fields of study?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) John Marshall.

6. Which writing stated that laws no longer carry any weight with the people who do whatever they please, regardless of what is morally right?
(a) "Voltaire".
(b) "On Suffering Persecution".
(c) "Before the Diet of Worms".
(d) "A Second Crusade".

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

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

9. According to Hannibal's speech "To His Soldiers", what river was larger and more impetuous than the Rhone River?
(a) Rhine River.
(b) Po River.
(c) Alps River.
(d) Sardinian River.

10. Who was convicted of bribery?
(a) David Lloyd George.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) Sir Robert Walpole.
(d) Oliver Cromwell.

11. Who was known as the "Liberator of Ireland"?
(a) Charles Stewart Parnell.
(b) Daniel O'Connell.
(c) Robert Emmet.
(d) Arthur Griffith.

12. According to Sir Robert Borden's speech "The Voice of the Empire", how many years had gone by without a threat of their empire?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 150 years.

13. According to William Green's "Modern Trade Unionism", what should not be the heritage of any limited group?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Education.
(c) Culture.
(d) Trade.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was known as the "Liberator of South America" and was a great military leader and statesman?

2. In the speech "Nationalism in India", how did the speaker feel that the countrymen will truly gain their India?

3. In the speech "To His Troops", Lucius Sergius Catiline stated two armies opposed their progress. Rome was one, what was the other army?

4. Who renounced all worldliness and led a life of self-denial and religious devotion, preaching the gospel to the rich and poor?

5. Who believed that we have many things to learn from the West?

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