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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was thirty-six years old and one of the greatest dramatists and orators of his period in Parliament?
(a) Oliver Cromwell.
(b) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(c) William Pitt.
(d) Warren Hastings.

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

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

5. According to the speech "Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757", whose army is twice as strong?
(a) Duke of Bevern.
(b) Prince Eugene.
(c) Prince Karl.
(d) Frederick the Great.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the speech known as the "Funeral Oration?

2. Who delivered the speech "Before the Diet of Worms"?

3. According to a speech by Jan C. Smuts, what was wanted by the world?

4. How old was Voltaire when he died?

5. Who served on the U.S. Supreme Court for over half a century and delivered the speech "Live--I am Coming"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss one advantage of modern inventions.

2. Discuss the relationship between the United States and the British government after the Revolution.

3. Describe Edmund Burke's objection of uncertainty of force.

4. Hugo admired Voltaire for many reasons. What did Voltaire's smile mean according to Hugo?

5. What were the social principles outlined by Alexander Hamilton?

6. Describe the objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization.

7. Describe the proper business of a labor union.

8. How did Pericles view wealth and poverty?

9. In the chapter "Great Britain and Ireland", what was the Times newspaper persuading people about?

10. According to Bonaparte's speech "On Beginning the Russian Campaign", describe the second war in Poland.

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