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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The United States.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the speech "To His Troops", where did Catiline say people waited after losing their property?
(a) Athens.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Carthage.
(d) Rome.

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

3. Who was a great speaker and debater that was opposed to The League of Nations?
(a) Eugene Victor Debs.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Elihu Root.
(d) William Edgar Borah.

4. What event inspired the speech known as "Funeral Oration"?
(a) The Persian War.
(b) The Peloponnesian War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Italian War.

5. Who was a philosopher, diplomat and statesmen that had great abilities in different fields of study?
(a) Alexander Hamilton.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) John Marshall.
(d) James Madison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who promised that there would be honor and glory later in the Italian campaign?

2. Who wrote about the need to "repress" women?

3. Who was probably the outstanding leader of the abolitionist movement and president of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

4. Who wrote that the House of Commons needed to only pay attention to "British interests"?

5. Who was one of the greatest orators of the French Revolution, although the speakers was impaired by a painful stammer?

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