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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 social program.
(c) A new amendment.
(d) A new employment law.

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

3. Who was the leader of the Conservative party and was highly respected for his efforts toward Canadian prestige and unity?
(a) Sir John Macdonald.
(b) Simon Bolivar.
(c) Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
(d) Sir Robert Borden.

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

5. According to a speech Edward Everett, which two men died in the same day?
(a) Washington and Jefferson.
(b) Adams and Hamilton.
(c) Adams and Washington.
(d) Adams and Jefferson.

6. Who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for over half a century and delivered the speech "Live--I am Coming"?
(a) John Marshall.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) Elihu Root.

7. According to a speech by Jan C. Smuts, what was wanted by the world?
(a) Love.
(b) Peace.
(c) The ability to conquer.
(d) Money.

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

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) Mirabeau.
(b) Danton.
(c) Louis XVI.
(d) Desmoulins.

10. Which state was organized by people within a region and abandoned slavery?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Kansas.

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

12. In the speech "Funeral Orations" the speaker addressed which group of people first?
(a) The sons.
(b) The victims.
(c) The forefathers.
(d) The barbarians.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the speech "On His Condemnation to Death", who did the speaker tell the judges to punish?

2. Who did Grover Cleveland refer to as a discoverer, dreamer, hero and apostle?

3. Who was that first Secretary of Treasury that was killed in a duel?

4. Who was interested in politics, but placed social reforms before political independence?

5. Who started the Hull House, a famous settlement for Social Service in Chicago?

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