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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the speech "England's Position", what country gave Belgium an ultimatum?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Italy.

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

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

5. Who believed that if everyone understood the facts, no one would question England's involvement in the war?
(a) Oliver Cromwell.
(b) David Lloyd George.
(c) Cardinal Manning.
(d) Sir Edward Grey.

6. According to the speech "American Labor", what was the best market for American agriculture?
(a) American labor.
(b) The poorer nations of Africa.
(c) The people of Europe.
(d) The American Farmer.

7. Who was the editor for the Emporia Gazette and won the Pulitzer Prize?
(a) Clarence Darrow.
(b) Thomas E. Dewey.
(c) William Allen White.
(d) John L. Lewis.

8. 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) "A Second Crusade".
(d) "Before the Diet of Worms".

9. Who was known as the "Liberator of South America" and was a great military leader and statesman?
(a) Simon Bolivar.
(b) Cortez.
(c) Poncho Villa.
(d) Jan Smuts.

10. According to Cicero in "First Oration Against Catiline", who was put to death on mere suspicion?
(a) Marcus Fulvius.
(b) Lucius Opimius.
(c) Caius Gracchus.
(d) Caius Marius.

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

12. Who was one of the greatest orators of the French Revolution, although the speakers was impaired by a painful stammer?
(a) Desmoulins.
(b) Mirabeau.
(c) Louis XVI.
(d) Frederick the Great.

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

14. Who was probably the outstanding leader of the abolitionist movement and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Martin Van Buren.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) John Calhoun.

15. Who wrote that "the decision to dissolve Parliament was based on the best interests of the public"?
(a) Sir Edward Grey.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Emmeline Pankhurst.
(d) David Lloyd George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country was Warren Hastings the British governor?

2. In what United States city did Sir Wilfrid Laurier defend Great Britain's cause, and support for the Great War?

3. Who was a former Governor of New York that attacked religious prejudice in American politics?

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

5. Who was the first non-slaveholding citizen of a free State who won election in the Democratic party?

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