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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivered the speech "Defense Against the Charges" and ultimately saved the speaker from the guillotine?
(a) Marat.
(b) Danton.
(c) Mirabeau.
(d) Robespierre.

2. Who was a powerful supporter of Cicero in defeating the conspiracy of Catiline against the Roman government?
(a) Marc Antony.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Cato the Younger.
(d) Marcus Brutus.

3. Who delivered the speech "Before the Diet of Worms"?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Victor Hugo.

4. Who gave the speech known as the "Funeral Oration?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Demosthenes.
(d) Julius Caesar.

5. In what year was "On the Crown" written?
(a) 344 B.C.
(b) 330 A.D.
(c) 540 B.C.
(d) 330 B.C.

6. Who was a great statesmen and economist that won world fame as a powerful advocate of free trade?
(a) Thomas Babington Macaulay.
(b) John Bright.
(c) George Canning.
(d) Richard Cobden.

7. Who said that "a person should seek to be holy on earth in order to achieve rewards in heaven"?
(a) Cardinal Manning.
(b) John Wesley.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Martin Luther.

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

9. Who was a radical advocate during the Reign of Terror that inspired the National Assembly and people to fight the enemies of the Revolution?
(a) Danton.
(b) Desmoulins.
(c) Louis XVI.
(d) Mirabeau.

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

11. Who promised that there would be honor and glory later in the Italian campaign?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Napolean Bonaparte.
(c) Frederick the Great.
(d) Leon Trotsky.

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

13. According to the speech "Rendezvous with Despair", what is the only answer to gloomy predictions regarding the growth of the country?
(a) History.
(b) A new employment law.
(c) A new social program.
(d) A new amendment.

14. Who believed that we have many things to learn from the West?
(a) Sun Yat-sen.
(b) Mohandas Ghandi.
(c) Rabindranath Tagore.
(d) Simon Bolivar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a speech Edward Everett, which two men died in the same day?

2. According to William Green's "Modern Trade Unionism", what should not be the heritage of any limited group?

3. According to the speech "American Labor", what was the best market for American agriculture?

4. Who advocated for anti-slavery and woman's suffrage and was arrested for voting in a presidential election?

5. What event inspired the speech known as "Funeral Oration"?

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