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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote that the House of Commons needed to only pay attention to "British interests"?
(a) Oliver Cromwell.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) Robert Emmet.
(d) David Lloyd George.

2. Who led the famous Pullman strike and identified with the Socialist movement?
(a) William Edgar Borah.
(b) Elihu Root.
(c) Stephen Wise.
(d) Eugene Victor Debs.

3. Who was a Puritan theologian that was famous for his sermons on sin, hell and punishment?
(a) John Hancock.
(b) Patrick Henry.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Jonathon Edwards.

4. Who was an outspoken imperialist and pursued the expansion of the British empire?
(a) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(b) Sir Edward Grey.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Joseph Chamberlain.

5. Who delivered a speech over the dead body of Caesar in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
(a) Decius Brutus.
(b) Marc Antony.
(c) Caius Cassius.
(d) Marcus Brutus.

6. Who was the thirty-first President of the U.S. that delivered a speech on the Bill of Rights on Constitution Day?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

7. Who did Grover Cleveland refer to as a discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle?
(a) Magellan.
(b) Ponce de Leon.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Meriweather Lewis.

8. Who started the Hull House, a famous settlement for Social Service in Chicago?
(a) Susan B. Anthony.
(b) Stephen Wise.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Jane Addams.

9. Who was known as a militant and nick-named "The Tiger"?
(a) Georges Clemenceau.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Alexander Kerensky.
(d) Otto Van Bismarck.

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

11. Who told the troops that men under his command are only his allies?
(a) Frederick the Great.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Leon Trotsky.
(d) Napolean Bonaparte.

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

13. What country was the Volga district the center of attention?
(a) France.
(b) Soviet Russia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

14. Who was interested in politics, but placed social reforms before political independence?
(a) Sun Yat-sen.
(b) Mohandas Ghandi.
(c) Jan C. Smuts.
(d) Rabindranath Tagore.

15. In the sermon, "On Suffering Persecution", ignominy and what were two opposites?
(a) Reputation.
(b) Envy.
(c) Greed.
(d) Dignity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to John Bright, what law was very unsettled or bad?

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

3. Who supported non-intervention and national and liberal movements in Europe?

4. Who was a philosopher, diplomat and statesmen that had great abilities in different fields of study?

5. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?

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